Amos 8:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

When

Be gone

Malachi 1:13

And the

Making

Micah 6:10

Falsifying the balances by deceit

Hosea 12:7

General references

Ezekiel 45:10

Bible References

When

Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings. And they shall be to you for a m

And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt-offering to LORD: two young bullocks, and one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish,

And he said, Why will thou go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.

Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast-day.

Bring no more vain oblations. Incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath, the calling of assemblies--I cannot bear iniquity and the solemn meeting.

Let not any man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths,

Be gone

Ye also say, Behold, what a weariness it is! And ye have sniffed at it, says LORD of hosts. And ye have brought that which was taken by violence, and the lame, and the sick. Thus ye bring the offering. Should I accept this at your

And the

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

In those days I saw in Judah some men treading wine-presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys [therewith], as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on t

If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of LORD honorable, and shall honor it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, no

For the mentality of the flesh is death, but the mentality of the Spirit is life and peace.

Making

Ye shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Thou shall not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.

A FALSE balance is an abomination to LORD, but a just weight is his delight.

A just balance and scales are LORD's. All the weights of the bag are his work.

Diverse weights are an abomination to LORD, and a FALSE balance is not good.

Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable?

Falsifying the balances by deceit

[He is] a Canaanite. The balances of deceit are in his hand. He loves to oppress.

General references

Thou shall not steal.

And if thou sell anything to thy neighbor, or buy of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not wrong each other.

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

Thou have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.