This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals. People Amorites, Amos, Nazarites, NaziritesPlaces Edom, Egypt, Jerusalem, Kerioth, MoabTopics Changed, Crimes, Fate, Money, Needy, Pair, Poor, Price, Punishment, Reverse, Revoke, Righteous, Sandals, Says, Sell, Selling, Sentence, Shoes, Shoes-, Silver, Sins, Sold, Thereof, Thus, Transgressions, Turn, Upright, Wrath, Yea, YesOutline 1. God's judgments upon Moab,4. upon Judah,6. and upon Israel.9. God complains of their ingratitude.Dictionary of Bible Themes Amos 2:6 1656 numbers, combinations 4363 silver 5179 sandal 5274 credit 5289 debt 5587 trade 6134 coveting, prohibition 8158 righteousness, of believers 8792 oppression, God's attitude Amos 2:4-6 8707 apostasy, personal Amos 2:4-8 8739 evil, examples of Amos 2:6-7 5310 exploitation 5448 poverty, attitudes to 5541 society, negative 5561 suffering, nature of 7150 righteous, the 8311 morality, and redemption 8791 oppression, nature of Amos 2:6-8 5444 pledges 5504 rights 7233 Israel, northern kingdom 8701 affluence 8783 neglect 8807 profanity Jump to Previous Changed Crimes Fate Four Israel Money Needy Pair Poor Price Punishment Reverse Revoke Righteous Sandals Sell Sentence Shoes Silver Sins Sold Thereof Three Transgressions Turn Upright WrathJump to Next Changed Crimes Fate Four Israel Money Needy Pair Poor Price Punishment Reverse Revoke Righteous Sandals Sell Sentence Shoes Silver Sins Sold Thereof Three Transgressions Turn Upright WrathLibrary Ripe for Gathering 'Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. 2. And He said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon My people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. 3. And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence. 4. Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy ScriptureThird Circuit of Galilee. The Twelve Instructed and Sent Forth. ^A Matt. IX. 35-38; X. 1, 5-42; XI. 1; ^B Mark VI. 6-13; ^C Luke IX. 1-6. ^b 6 And he ^a Jesus ^b went about ^a all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner sickness and all manner of sickness. [In the first circuit of Galilee some of the twelve accompanied Jesus as disciples (see [3]Section XXXIII.); in the second the twelve were with him as apostles; in the third they, too, are sent forth as evangelists to supplement … J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel The Kingdom of God Conceived as the Inheritance of the Poor. These maxims, good for a country where life is nourished by the air and the light, and this delicate communism of a band of children of God reposing in confidence on the bosom of their Father, might suit a simple sect constantly persuaded that its Utopia was about to be realized. But it is clear that they could not satisfy the whole of society. Jesus understood very soon, in fact, that the official world of his time would by no means adopt his kingdom. He took his resolution with extreme boldness. … Ernest Renan—The Life of Jesus To his Praise! "They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness." THIS chapter is written more than seven years later than the foregoing, in further testimony and praise. Returning to Canada at the time of the Great War, we came face to face with a serious financial crisis. Only two ways seemed open to us. One was to lay our affairs frankly before the Board, showing that our salary was quite insufficient, with war conditions and prices, to meet our requirements. The other course was to just go forward, … Rosalind Goforth—How I Know God Answers Prayer The Tests of Love to God LET us test ourselves impartially whether we are in the number of those that love God. For the deciding of this, as our love will be best seen by the fruits of it, I shall lay down fourteen signs, or fruits, of love to God, and it concerns us to search carefully whether any of these fruits grow in our garden. 1. The first fruit of love is the musing of the mind upon God. He who is in love, his thoughts are ever upon the object. He who loves God is ravished and transported with the contemplation of … Thomas Watson—A Divine Cordial Parallel Verses NASB: Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they sell the righteous for money And the needy for a pair of sandals.KJV: Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
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