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 appointments, and in the heads of your mouths, and ye shall sound with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace; and they were to you for a remembrance before your God: I am Jehovah your God.

And in the beginnings of your months, ye shall bring near a burnt-offering to Jehovah; two bullocks, sons of a cow, and one ram, seven blameless lambs, sons of a year;

And he will say, Wherefore goest thou to him this day? not new moon, and not Sabbath. And she will say, Peace.

Strike ye the trumpet in the new in the full moon, for the day of our festival.

Ye shall not add to bring gifts of iniquity; incense, this an abomination to me; the new moon and the Sabbath, the calling of the assembly; I shall not be able to bear vanity and restraining.

Therefore let not any judge you in food, or in drink, or in turn of festival, or of the new moon, or of sabbaths:

Be gone

And ye said, Behold, what a weariness! and ye puffed at it, said Jehovah of armies; and ye brought the spoiled and the lame, and the sick; and ye brought the gift: shall I accept it from your hand? said Jehovah.

And the

Remember the day of the Sabbath to consecrate it

In those days I saw in Judah those treading the wine-presses in the Sabbath, and bringing in the sheaves, and loading upon the asses; and also wine, grapes, and figs, and every burden, and bringing into Jerusalem in the day of the Sabbath: and I shall testify in the day of their selling provision.

If thou shalt turn back thy foot from the Sabbath, doing thy delight in my holy day; and thou calledst to the Sabbath a delight for the holy of Jehovah, being honored; and thou honoredst him from doing thy ways, from finding thy delight, and speaking the word.

For the thought of the flesh, death; and the thought of the Spirit, life and peace.

Making

Just balances, just stones, a just ephah, and a just hin shall be to you: I Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

There shall not be to thee in thy receptacle a stone and a stone, great and small.

Balances of deceit, an abomination of Jehovah: and a whole stone his delight

Weighing and balances of judgment are to Jehovah, and his work all the stones of the bag.

An abomination of Jehovah stone and stone; and the balance of deceit is not good.

A just balance, and a just ephah, and a just bath, shall be to you.

Are there yet treasures of injustice in the house of the unjust, and the ephah of leanness being cursed?

Falsifying the balances by deceit

Canaan in his hand, the balances of deceit: he loved to oppress.

General references

Thou shalt not steal.

And when ye shall sell a selling to thy neighbor, or buying of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress each his brother.

For they ate the bread of injustice, and they will drink the wine of violences:

Thou didst despise my holy place, and thou didst profane my Sabbaths

A just balance, and a just ephah, and a just bath, shall be to you.