Amos 2:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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:

Pant

And turn

Amos 5:12

Isaiah 10:2

And a

Leviticus 18:8

Ezekiel 22:11

1 Corinthians 5:1

To profane

General references

Bible References

Pant

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan
who are on the hill of Samaria,
women who oppress the poor
and crush the needy,
who say to their husbands,
“Bring us something to drink.”

So Ahab went to his palace resentful and angry because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had told him. He had said, “I will not give you my fathers’ inheritance.” He lay down on his bed, turned his face away, and didn’t eat any food.

It is not good to show partiality—
yet a man may sin for a piece of bread.

They covet fields and seize them;
they also take houses.
They deprive a man of his home,
a person of his inheritance.

Godly people have vanished from the land;
there is no one upright among the people.
All of them wait in ambush to shed blood;
they hunt each other with a net.

The princes within her are roaring lions;
her judges are wolves of the night,
which leave nothing for the morning.

And turn

For I know your crimes are many
and your sins innumerable.
They oppress the righteous, take a bribe,
and deprive the poor of justice at the gates.

to keep the poor from getting a fair trial
and to deprive the afflicted among my people of justice,
so that widows can be their spoil
and they can plunder the fatherless.

And a

You are not to have sex with your father’s wife; it will shame your father.

One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated among the Gentiles—a man is living with his father’s wife.

To profane

I will turn against that man and cut him off from his people, because he gave his offspring to Molech, defiling My sanctuary and profaning My holy name.

However, because you treated the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son born to you will die.”

When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said about them, ‘These are the people of Yahweh, yet they had to leave His land in exile.’

For, as it is written: The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.

General references

You are not to have sex with your father’s wife; it will shame your father.

If a man sleeps with his father’s wife, he has shamed his father. Both of them must be put to death; their blood is on their own hands.

“Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether one of your brothers or one of the foreigners residing within a town in your land.

‘The one who sleeps with his father’s wife is cursed, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’