Amos 2:7

They trample on the heads of the poor as people trample on dust on the ground; 1 they push the oppressed away. 1 A man and his father sleep with the same girl 1 and so profane my holy name. 1

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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

6This is what Yahweh says: 1 “For three sins of Israel, 1 even for four, 1 I will not turn away punishment, 1 because they sold the innocent for silver 1 and the needy for a pair of sandals. 1

8They lie down beside every altar on clothes taken as pledges, 1 and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who were fined. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:15Do not sleep with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not sleep with her.

Leviticus 20:3I also will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people because he has given his child to Molech, so as to defile my holy place and profane my holy name.

1 Kings 21:4So Ahab went into his palace resentful and angry because of the answer Naboth the Jezreelite gave him when he said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my ancestors.” He lay down on his bed, turned away his face, and refused to eat any food.

Isaiah 3:14Yahweh will come with judgment against the elders of his people and their leaders: 1 “You have ruined the vineyard; the plunder from the poor is in your houses. 1

Isaiah 10:1Woe to those who enact unjust laws and write unfair decrees. 1

Ezekiel 22:11Men who commit abominations with their neighbors' wives, and men who make their own daughters-in-law shamefully unclean; men who abuse their own sisters—daughters of their own fathers—all these are done within you.

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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