Amos 2:8
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.
Context
This verse from Amos Chapter 2 connects to 10 cross-references. Judgment oracles continue against Ammon and Moab, then turn to Judah and most elaborately to Israel. Israel has sold the righteous for silver, perverted the ways of the humble, engaged in immorality at the altar, and drunk wine taken as …
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and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.
And on pledged garments they stretch themselves near every altar, And the wine of fined ones they drink <FI>in<Fi> the house of their gods.
By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.
Çapraz Referanslar
If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun …
For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall …
And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went …
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given …
Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his …
And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine …
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.