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

And on days of joy and on your regular feasts and on the first day of every month, let the horns be sounded over your burned offerings and your peace-offerings; and they will put the Lord in mind of you: I am the Lord your God.

And on the first day of every month you are to give a burned offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark;

And he said, Why are you going to him today? it is not a new moon or a Sabbath. But she said, It is well.

Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day:

Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.

For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:

Be gone

And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord.

And the

Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day.

In those days, I saw in Judah some who were crushing grapes on the Sabbath, and getting in grain and putting it on asses; as well as wine and grapes and figs and all sorts of goods which they took into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I gave witness against them on the day when they were marketing food.

If you keep the Sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words;

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

Making

Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;

Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;

Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.

True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.

Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?

Falsifying the balances by deceit

As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.

General references

Do not take the property of another.

And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.

Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.