Amos 2:6 Cross References - Leeser

⁶ Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because they sold for silver the righteous, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

⁷ This took place, because the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, ⁸ And had walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before the children of Israel, and in those of the kings of Israel, which they had made. ⁹ And because the children of Israel had secretly done things that are not right against the Lord their God, and had built themselves high-places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen up to fortified cities; ¹⁰ And had set themselves up statues and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree; ¹¹ And had burnt there incense on all the high-places, like the nations that the Lord had led away exiles before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger; ¹² And had served the idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. ¹³ The Lord had indeed warned Israel and Judah, by means of all the prophets, all the seers, saying, Turn ye back from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I have sent to you by means of my servants the prophets. ¹⁴ But they would not hear, and hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who had not believed in the Lord their God; ¹⁵ And they despised his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had entrusted to them; and they followed after what is vanity, and became vain, and followed after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, not to do like them. ¹⁶ And they forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made themselves molten images, two calves, and made a grove, and bowed down to all the host of the heavens, and served Ba’al; ¹⁷ And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divinations and enchantments, and sold themselves to do what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. ¹⁸ Therefore became the Lord very angry with Israel, and he removed them from his presence: there was none left but the tribe of Judah alone.

¹² Because they had not obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, but had transgressed his covenant, all that Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded; and had not obeyed, nor done accordingly.

²² Woe unto those that are heroes to drink wine, and men of might to mingle strong drink; ²³ Who justify the wicked in lieu of a bribe, and who deprive the righteous of their right!

²¹ That cause mankind to sin by their word; and lay a snare for him that reproveth them in the gate; and pervert through fraud the cause of the just.

⁵ And Aholah played the harlot while she was mine; and she longed for her lovers, for the Assyrians that were near her, ⁶ Clothed as they were in blue, governors, and rulers, attractive youths all of them, horsemen riding upon horses. ⁷ Thus she played the harlot with them, all of them the chosen ones of the sons of Asshur: and with all for whom she longed,—with all their idols did she defile herself. ⁸ But also her lewdness from Egypt forsook she not; for they had lain with her in her youth, and they had touched her virgin bosom, and had lavished their lewd caresses on her. ⁹ Therefore did I give her up into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the sons of Asshur, after whom she longed.

¹ Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel; for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land; because there is no truth, nor kindness, nor knowledge of God in the land. ² There is false swearing, and lying, and murdering, and stealing, and committing adultery: they break the bounds, and blood toucheth on blood.

¹¹ Lewdness and wine and new wine take away the heart. ¹² My people ask counsel of their stick of wood, and their staff shall tell them the future: for the spirit of lewdness hath caused them to err, and they are gone astray unfaithful to their God. ¹³ Upon the tops of the mountains do they sacrifice, and upon the hills burn they incense, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because their shadow is good: therefore will your daughters play the harlot, and your daughter-in-law will commit adultery. ¹⁴ I cannot inflict punishment on your daughters when they play the harlot, nor on your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; for they themselves associate with lewd women, and with harlots do they sacrifice: and so doth the people that doth not understand stumble.

⁷ They are all hot as an oven, they devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me. ⁸ Ephraim mixeth himself indeed among the nations: Ephraim is a cake not turned. ⁹ Strangers devour his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are sprinkled about on his head, yet he knoweth not. ¹⁰ And humbled was the pride of Israel before his own face; but they did not return to the Lord their God, and sought him not, notwithstanding all this.

⁴ They set up kings, but not my advice: they chose princes and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made themselves idols so that they will be cut off. ⁵ Thy calf, O Samaria, hath caused thy rejection; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be that they cannot cleanse themselves? ⁶ For whom Israel did also that idol spring; an artisan made it, and no God is it: so then shall it become broken in splinters—that calf of Samaria.

² And now they yet continue to sin, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, idols according to their own imagining, every one of them the work of the artisan: they say to them, They that sacrifice men may kiss the calves. ³ Therefore shall they be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away, as the chaff that is driven by the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as smoke out of a window.

^{3 (4:3)} And for my people did they cast lots; and gave a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and drank it.

^{6 (4:6)} And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the sons of the Jevanim, in order to remove them far from their borders.

¹¹ Therefore forasmuch as you tread down upon the poor, and ye take from him onerous contributions of corn: if ye have built houses of hewn stone, ye shall not dwell in them; if ye have planted pleasant vineyards, ye shall not drink their wine. ¹² For I know your manifold transgressions and your numerous sins: ye are those that are the adversaries of the just, that take a ransom, and that wrest the cause of the needy in the gate.

³ Ye that deem far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; ⁴ That lie upon beds of ivory, and are stretched out upon their couches, and eat lambs out of the flock, and calves out of the midst of the stall; ⁵ That chant to the sound of the psaltery, and like David’s do they imagine their instrument of music to be; ⁶ That drink out of wine-bowls, and anoint themselves with the costliest of ointments; but who feel no pain for the wound of Joseph. ⁷ Therefore now shall they go into exile at the head of exiles, and the noisy banquet of those that were stretched out shall pass away.

⁴ Hear this, O ye that are greedy to swallow the needy, and to ruin the poor of the land, ⁵ Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell provision? and the sabbath, that we may open the corn-warehouses, making the ephah small, and increasing the shekel, and cheating with deceitful balances? ⁶ That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and even sell the refuse of the corn?

² But they are those who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; ³ Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and who crush their bones, and chop them in pieces, as that to be put in a pot, and as flesh within a caldron.

¹⁰ Are there yet in the house of the wicked man the treasures of wickedness, and the scant accursed measure? ¹¹ Can I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag full of deceptive weights? ¹² For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken falsehood, and their tongue is deceit itself in their mouth. ¹³ Therefore have I also smitten thee with sore wounds, making thee desolate because of thy sins. ¹⁴ Thou wilt indeed eat, but not be satisfied; and what thou hast eaten shall bend thee down; and thou wilt overtake the enemy, but thou shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword. ¹⁵ Thou wilt indeed sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou wilt indeed tread out olives, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; and the juice of the grapes, but thou shalt not drink wine. ¹⁶ For there are observed the statutes of ‘Omri, and all the works of the house of Achab, and ye walk in their counsels: in order that I should give thee up unto desolation, and thy inhabitants to derision; and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.