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

Hear this word you cows of Bashan who live on the mountain of Samaria. You oppress the poor. You crush the needy. You say to your masters (husbands) (lords), Bring us drink.

Ahab returned to his house bitter and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite said to him: I will not give you the heritage of my fathers. Stretching himself on the bed with his face turned away, he would not eat.

It is not good to show partiality for a man will transgress for a piece of bread.

They covet fields and seize them. They covet houses and confiscate them! They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

The godly (loyal) (holy) man has perished from the earth. There is none upright among men! They all lie in wait for blood. Every man hunts his own brother with a net.

Her princes (rulers) within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morning.

And turn

I know you have many transgressions and your sins are great. You afflict the righteous. You take bribes. You refuse to help the needy at the gate.

They deprive the poor of justice. They take away the rights of the needy among my people. They prey on widows and rob orphans.

And a

Do not disgrace him by having sex with any of his other wives.

Some commit adultery, and others seduce their daughters-in-law or their half sisters.

It is reported that there is sexual immorality among you. This type of fornication is not even found among the people of the nations (who do not know God). There is a man who has his father's wife.

To profane

I will condemn them and exclude them from the people. They gave one of their children to Molech. They made my holy tent unclean, and dishonored my holy name.

You have shown total contempt for Jehovah by this affair. Therefore the son that is born to you must die.

Wherever they went among the nations, they dishonored my holy name. People said about them: 'These are Jehovah's people, yet they had to leave his land.'

The name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations, just as it is written. (Ezekiel 36:20, 21)

General references

Do not disgrace him by having sex with any of his other wives.

A man who has intercourse with one of his father's wives disgraces his father. Both he and the woman must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.

Do not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns.

Cursed is the man who has sexual activities with his father's wife, because he has violated his father's rights.' And all the people say: 'Amen.'