Amos 4:1
Listen to this word, 1 you cows of Bashan, 1 you who are in the mountain of Samaria, 1 you who oppress the poor, 1 you who crush the needy, 1 you who say to your husbands, 1 “Bring us drinks.” 1
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Exodus 22:21You must not wrong a foreigner or oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 15:9Be careful not to have a wicked thought in your heart, saying, 'The seventh year, the year of release, is near,' so that you will not be stingy in regard to your poor brother and give him nothing; he might cry out to Yahweh about you, and it would be sin for you.
Deuteronomy 32:14He ate butter from the herd and drank milk from the flock, 1 with fat of lambs, 1 rams of Bashan and goats, 1 with the finest of the wheat— 1 and you drank foaming wine made from the juice of grapes. 1
Job 20:19For he has oppressed and neglected poor people; 1 he has violently taken away houses that he did not build. 1
Psalms 12:5“Because of violence against the poor, because of the groans of the needy, 1 I will arise,” says Yahweh. 1 “I will provide the safety for which they long.” 1
Psalms 140:12I know that Yahweh will judge in favor of the afflicted, 1 and that he will give justice to the needy. 1
Matthew Henry on Amos 4:1
In this chapter, I. The oppressors in Israel are threatened for their oppression of the poor, ver. 1-3 . II. The idolaters in Israel, being joined to idols, are given up to their own heart's lusts, ver. 4, 5 . III. All the sins of Israel are aggravated from their incorrigibleness in them, and their refusal to return and reform, notwithstanding the various rebukes of Providence which they had been under, ver. 6-11 . IV. They are invited yet at length to humble themselves before God, since it is impossible for them… Read the whole commentary →