Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
What mean
Ye beat
General references
Bible References
What mean
Ezekiel 18:2
What -- to you, ye -- using this simile Concerning the ground of Israel, saying: Fathers do eat unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted?
Jonah 1:6
And the chief of the company draweth near to him, and saith to him, 'What -- to thee, O sleeper? rise, call unto thy God, it may be God doth bethink himself of us, and we do not perish.'
Ye beat
Isaiah 58:4
Lo, for strife and debate ye fast, And to smite with the fist of wickedness, Ye fast not as to -day, To sound in the high place your voice.
Exodus 5:14
And the authorities of the sons of Israel, whom the exactors of Pharaoh have placed over them, are beaten, saying, 'Wherefore have ye not completed your portion in making brick as heretofore, both yesterday and to-day?'
Amos 2:6
Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their selling for silver the righteous, And the needy for a pair of sandals.
Amos 8:4
Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,
Micah 3:2
Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones,
General references
Leviticus 25:14
'And when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress one another;