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

At the beginning of the month, during your time of rejoicing at the appointed place, sound the trumpet over your burnt offering, then sacrifice your peace offering, since they are to be your memorial before the LORD your God. I am the LORD your God."

"On the first day of each month, you are to offer a burnt offering to the LORD consisting of two young bulls, one ram, and seven one year old lambs, all of them without any defects,

He asked her, "What's the point of visiting him today? It's not a New Moon, and it isn't the Sabbath!" But she kept saying, "Things will go well."

Blow the ram's horn when there is a New Moon, when there is a full moon, on our festival day,

Stop bringing useless offerings! Incense is detestable to me, as are your New Moons, Sabbaths, and calling of convocations. I cannot stand iniquity within a solemn assembly.

Therefore, let no one judge you in matters of food and drink or with respect to a festival, a New Moon, or Sabbath days.

Be gone

"And you say, "What a burden!' and sniff contemptuously at it," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "when you present maimed, crippled, and diseased animals, and when you bring the offering. Should I accept this from your hand?" asks the LORD.

And the

"Remember the Sabbath day, maintaining its holiness.

At that time I saw in Judah some who were treading wine presses on the Sabbath, bringing in sacks of grain, loading them onto donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads. They brought them into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I rebuked them on the day on which they were selling food.

"If you keep your feet from trampling the Sabbath, from pursuing your own interests on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD's holy day honorable; and if you honor it by not going your own ways and seeking your own pleasure or speaking merely idle words,

To focus our minds on the human nature leads to death, but to focus our minds on the Spirit leads to life and peace.

Making

You are to maintain just balances and reliable standards for weights, dry volumes, and liquid volumes. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

"Don't have different weights in your bag one heavy and one light.

The LORD hates false scales, but he delights in accurate weights.

Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; he made all the weights in the bag.

The LORD detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not good.

"You're to use an honest scale, an honest dry measure, and an honest liquid measure!

Are there still wicked treasures in the house of the wicked, along with deceitful and abominable measuring standards?

Falsifying the balances by deceit

"Now as for the merchant, deceitful balances remain in his hand, and he loves to defraud.

General references

"You are not to steal.

So if you had sold property to a neighbor or had acquired land from your neighbor, you are not to cheat one another.

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

"""You have despised my sacred things and profaned my Sabbaths.

"You're to use an honest scale, an honest dry measure, and an honest liquid measure!