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 in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in your new moons, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings and over your sacrifices of peace-offering; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am Jehovah your God.

And in the beginnings of your months ye shall present a burnt-offering to Jehovah: two young bullocks, and one ram, seven yearling lambs without blemish.

And he said, Why wilt thou go to him to-day? It is neither new moon nor sabbath. And she said, It is well.

Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day:

Bring no more vain oblations! Incense is an abomination unto me, new moon and sabbath, the calling of convocations wickedness and the solemn meeting I cannot bear.

Let none therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in matter of feast, or new moon, or sabbaths,

Be gone

And ye say, Behold, what a weariness! And ye have puffed at it, saith Jehovah of hosts, and ye bring that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye bring the oblation: should I accept this of your hand? saith Jehovah.

And the

Remember the sabbath day to hallow it.

In those days I saw in Judah some treading winepresses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading them on asses; as also wine, grapes and figs, and all manner of burdens; and they brought them into Jerusalem on the sabbath day; and I protested in the day on which they sold the victuals.

If thou turn back thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of Jehovah, honourable; and thou honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking idle words;

For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit life and peace.

Making

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

Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; but a just weight is his delight.

The just balance and scales are Jehovah's; all the weights of the bag are his work.

Divers weights are an abomination unto Jehovah; 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 the scant measure which is abominable?

Falsifying the balances by deceit

He is a merchant, balances of deceit are in his hand; he loveth to oppress.

General references

Thou shalt not steal.

And if ye sell ought unto your neighbour, or buy of your neighbour's hand, ye shall not overreach one another.

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

Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

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