Verse 8

'They stretch out beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their gods they drink wine taken as fines.'

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Referenced Verses

  • Amos 6:6 : 6 You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
  • Exod 22:26-27 : 26 For it is his only covering, the cloak for his body. What else can he sleep in? If he cries out to me, I will hear him, for I am gracious. 27 Do not blaspheme God or curse the leader of your people.
  • Deut 24:12-17 : 12 If the person is poor, do not keep their pledge overnight. 13 Return their pledge by sunset so that they may sleep in their own garment and bless you; this will be considered a righteous act before the LORD your God. 14 Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns. 15 Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and depend on it. Otherwise, they may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin. 16 Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin. 17 Do not pervert justice for the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's garment as security for a pledge.
  • Judg 9:27 : 27 They went out into the fields, harvested their vineyards, trampled the grapes, and held a festival. They entered the temple of their god, where they ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.
  • Isa 57:7 : 7 You have placed your bed on a high and lofty mountain; there you went up to offer sacrifices.
  • Ezek 18:7 : 7 He does not oppress anyone, but restores a pledge for a loan; he does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked.
  • Ezek 18:12 : 12 oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore a pledge, looks to idols, and does detestable things,
  • Ezek 23:41 : 41 You sat on a glorious couch with a table prepared before it, where you placed my incense and my oil.
  • Hos 4:8 : 8 They feed on the sins of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your masters, 'Bring us something to drink!'
  • Amos 6:4 : 4 You lie on beds inlaid with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs from the flock and fattened calves from the stall.
  • 1 Cor 8:10 : 10 For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, eating in an idol's temple, won’t their weak conscience be emboldened to eat food sacrificed to idols?
  • 1 Cor 10:7 : 7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, 'The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.'
  • 1 Cor 10:21 : 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot share in the Lord’s table and the table of demons.