Amos 2:7

It is as though they trample the poor people into the dirt and do not allow those who are helpless to be treated fairly. Men and their fathers dishonor me [MTY] by both having sex [EUP] with the same slave girl.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:

In Context

6Yahweh also said this: “ I will punish the people of Israel because of the many sins that they have committed; I will not change my mind about punishing them, because they sell righteous people to get a small amount of silver; they sell poor people, causing them to become slaves, getting for each of them only the amount of money with which they could buy a pair of sandals.

8When poor people borrow money, the lenders force those people to give to them a piece of clothing for them to keep until he can pay back the money. But at the end of each day, instead of returning that garment as Yahweh had commanded them to, they lie down on that garment at the places where they worship their gods! They fine people, and with that money they buy wine and drink it in the temples of their gods!

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:15“Do not have sex with [DOU] your daughter-in-law, because she is your son’s wife.

Leviticus 20:3I will reject [IDM] such people and command that they no longer be allowed to associate with my people.

1 Kings 21:4So Ahab became very sullen and angry because of what Naboth had said. He went home and lay down on his bed. He turned his face toward the wall, and he refused to eat anything.

Isaiah 3:14He will stand up to declare why the elders and rulers of his people should be punished: he says, “The people of Israel are like [MET] a vineyard that I planted, but you have ruined it! Your houses are full of things that you have stolen from poor people.

Isaiah 10:1Terrible things will happen to you judges who are unjust and who make unfair laws.

Ezekiel 22:11There are men who have sex with someone else’s wife. Some men have sex with their daughters-in-law or with their sisters or half-sisters.

Matthew Henry on Amos 2:2-9

The Judgment of Moab and of Judah; The Judgment of Israel. ( b. c. 790.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: 2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: 3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith… Read the whole commentary →

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