Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your offenses 1 and how great are your sins— 1 you who afflict the just, 1 take bribes, 1 and turn aside the needy in the city gate. 1

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For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

In Context

11Because you trample down the poor 1 and take portions of wheat from him— 1 although you have built houses of worked stone, 1 you will not live in them. 1 You have delightful vineyards, 1 but you will not drink their wine. 1

13Therefore any prudent person is silent at such a time, 1 for it is an evil time. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 23:3You must not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.

Deuteronomy 16:18You must make judges and officers within all your city gates that Yahweh your God is giving you; they will be taken from each of your tribes, and they must judge the people with righteous judgment.

Ruth 4:1Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Soon, the near kinsman of whom Boaz had spoken came by. Boaz said to him, “My friend, come over and sit down here.” The man came over and sat down.

2 Kings 17:7This captivity happened because the people of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. The people had been worshiping other gods

Job 29:7When I went out to the city gate, 1 when I sat in my place in the city square, 1

Psalms 26:9Do not sweep me away with sinners, 1 or my life with people who are bloodthirsty, 1

Matthew Henry on Amos 5:5-16

God's Message to Israel; The Aggravated Sins of Israel; Warnings and Exhortations; Exhortations and Encouragements. ( b. c. 790.) 4 For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: 5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought. 6 Seek the Lord , and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel. 7 Ye who… Read the whole commentary →

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