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, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh your God."

"'In the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;

He said, "Why would you want go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath." She said, "It's alright."

Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

Be gone

You say also, 'Behold, what a weariness it is!' and you have sniffed at it," says Yahweh of Armies; "and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?" says Yahweh.

And the

"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

In those days saw I in Judah some men treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys [therewith]; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified [against them] in the day in which they sold food.

"If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking [your own] words:

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

Making

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

You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.

A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights in the bag are his work.

Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

You 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 short ephah that is accursed?

Falsifying the balances by deceit

A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

General references

"You shall not steal.

"'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

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

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

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