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Amos 2:8 — Meaning and Application
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" And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god. "
Amos 2:8
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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
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:
And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots
Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
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Amos 2:1
"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:"
Amos 2:2
"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:"
Amos 2:3
"And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD."
Amos 2:4
"Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:"
Amos 2:5
"But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."
Amos 2:6
"Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;"
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