Amos 2:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

And they lye downe vpon clothes layde to pledge by euery altar: and they drinke the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Amos 6:6 : 6 They drinke wine in bowles, and anoynt themselues with the chiefe ointments, but no man is sory for the affliction of Ioseph.
  • Exod 22:26-27 : 26 If thou take thy neighbours rayment to pledge, thou shalt restore it vnto him before the sunne go downe: 27 For that is his couering only, and this is his garment for his skin: wherin shal he sleepe? therefore when he crieth vnto mee, I will heare him: for I am mercifull.
  • Deut 24:12-17 : 12 Furthermore if it be a poore body, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge, 13 But shalt restore him the pledge when the sunne goeth downe, that he may sleepe in his raiment, and blesse thee: and it shalbe righteousnesse vnto thee before the Lord thy God. 14 Thou shalt not oppresse an hyred seruant that is needie and poore, neyther of thy brethren, nor of the stranger that is in thy land within thy gates. 15 Thou shalt giue him his hire for his day, neither shall the sunne goe downe vpon it: for he is poore, and therewith susteineth his life: lest he crye against thee vnto the Lorde, and it be sinne vnto thee. 16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children put to death for the fathers, but euery man shalbe put to death for his owne sinne. 17 Thou shalt not peruert the right of the stranger, nor of the fatherlesse, nor take a widowes rayment to pledge.
  • Judg 9:27 : 27 Therefore they went out into the field, & gathered in their grapes and troade them, and made mery, & went into the house of their gods, and did eate and drinke, and cursed Abimelech.
  • Isa 57:7 : 7 Thou hast made thy bed vpon a very hie mountaine: thou wentest vp thither, euen thither wentest thou to offer sacrifice.
  • Ezek 18:7 : 7 Neither hath oppressed any, but hath restored the pledge to his dettour: he that hath spoyled none by violence, but hath giuen his bread to the hungry, and hath couered the naked with a garment,
  • Ezek 18:12 : 12 Or hath oppressed the poore and needy, or hath spoyled by violence, or hath not restored the pledge, or hath lift vp his eyes vnto the idoles, or hath committed abomination,
  • Ezek 23:41 : 41 And satest vpon a costly bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oyle.
  • Hos 4:8 : 8 They eate vp the sinnes of my people, and lift vp their mindes in their iniquitie.
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Heare this worde, ye kine of Bashan that are in the mountaine of Samaria, which oppresse the poore, & destroy the needie, and they say to their masters, Bring, and let vs drinke.
  • Amos 6:4 : 4 They lie vpon beddes of yuorie, & stretch themselues vpon their beddes, & eate the lambes of the flocke, and the calues out of the stall.
  • 1 Cor 8:10 : 10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge, sit at table in the idoles temple, shal not the conscience of him which is weake, be boldened to eate those things which are sacrificed to idoles?
  • 1 Cor 10:7 : 7 Neither bee ye idolaters as were some of them, as it is written, The people sate downe to eate and drinke, and rose vp to play.
  • 1 Cor 10:21 : 21 Ye can not drinke the cup of the Lord, and the cup of the deuils. Ye can not be partakers of the Lords table, and of the table of the deuils.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Amos 2:7
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    7They gape ouer the head of the poore, in the dust of the earth, and peruert the wayes of the meeke: and a man and his father will goe in to a mayde to dishonour mine holy Name.

  • Ezek 18:12
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    12Or hath oppressed the poore and needy, or hath spoyled by violence, or hath not restored the pledge, or hath lift vp his eyes vnto the idoles, or hath committed abomination,

  • Hos 7:14
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    14And they haue not cryed vnto me with their hearts, when they houled vpon their beds: they assembled themselues for corne, and wine, and they rebell against me.

  • Dan 5:4
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    4They drunke wine and praysed the gods of golde, and of siluer, of brasse, of yron, of wood and of stone.

  • Prov 4:17
    72%

    17For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.

  • Hos 4:18
    72%

    18Their drunkennes stinketh: they haue committed whoredome: their rulers loue to say with shame, Bring ye.

  • Num 25:2
    72%

    2Which called the people vnto the sacrifice of their gods, and the people ate, & bowed downe to their gods.

  • Isa 2:8
    72%

    8Their land also was full of idols: they worshipped the worke of their owne hands, which their owne fingers haue made.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11Forasmuch then as your treading is vpon the poore, and yee take from him burdens of wheate, ye haue built houses of hewen stone, but ye shal not dwel in them: ye haue plated pleasant vineyards, but ye shal not drinke wine of them.

  • Ezek 20:28
    72%

    28For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted vp mine hand to giue it to them, then they saw euery hie hill, and all the thicke trees, and they offred there their sacrifices, and there they presented their offering of prouocation: there also they made their sweete sauour, and powred out there their drinke offerings.

  • Job 22:6
    72%

    6For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.

  • Amos 6:4
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    4They lie vpon beddes of yuorie, & stretch themselues vpon their beddes, & eate the lambes of the flocke, and the calues out of the stall.

  • Isa 28:7
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    7But they haue erred because of wine, and are out of the way by strong drinke: the priest and the prophet haue erred by strong drinke: they are swallowed vp with wine: they haue gone astraye through strong drinke: they faile in vision: they stumble in iudgement.

  • Hab 2:15
    71%

    15Wo vnto him that giueth his neighbour drinke: thou ioynest thine heate, & makest him drunken also, that thou mayest see their priuities.

  • Ezek 22:12
    71%

    12In thee haue they taken giftes to shed blood: thou hast taken vsurie and the encrease, and thou hast defrauded thy neighbours by extortion, & hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

  • Amos 6:7
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    7Therefore nowe shal they go captiue with the first that go captiue, and the sorow of them that stretched themselues, is at hand.

  • Joel 1:13
    71%

    13Girde your selues and lament, ye Priests: howle ye ministers of the altar: come, and lie all night in sackecloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meate offring, and the drinke offring is taken away from the house of your God.

  • Joel 3:3
    71%

    3And they haue cast lottes for my people, and haue giuen the childe for the harlot, & sold the girle for wine, that they might drinke.

  • Mic 2:2
    71%

    2And they couet fields, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen man and his heritage.

  • Ezek 23:39
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    39For when they had slaine their children to their idoles, they came the same day into my Sanctuarie to defile it: and loe, thus haue they done in the middes of mine house.

  • Jer 5:7
    71%

    7Howe should I spare thee for this? Thy children haue forsaken me, and sworne by them that are no gods: though I fed them to the full, yet they committed adulterie, and assembled them selues by companies in the harlots houses.

  • Ezek 22:10
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    10In thee haue they discouered their fathers shame: in thee haue they vexed her that was polluted in her floures.

  • Hos 13:2
    70%

    2And nowe they sinne more and more, and haue made them molten images of their siluer, and idoles according to their owne vnderstanding: they were all the woorke of the craftesmen: they say one to another whiles they sacrifice a man, Let them kisse the calues.

  • Job 24:3
    70%

    3They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For he shall come as vnto thornes folden one in another, and as vnto drunkardes in their drunkennesse: they shall be deuoured as stubble fully dryed.

  • Ezek 23:37
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    37For they haue played the whores, and blood is in their hands, and with their idoles haue they committed adulterie, and haue also caused their sonnes, whome they bare vnto me, to passe by the fire to be their meate.

  • Isa 5:11
    70%

    11Wo vnto them, that rise vp early to followe drunkennes, and to them that continue vntill night, till the wine doe inflame them.

  • Job 24:9-11
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    9They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.

    10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie.

    11They that make oyle betweene their walles, and treade their wine presses, suffer thirst.

  • Hos 4:13
    70%

    13They sacrifice vpon the toppes of ye mountaines, and burne incense vpon the hilles vnder the okes, and the poplar tree, and the elme, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall be harlots, and your spouses shall be whores.

  • Deut 32:38
    70%

    38Which did eate the fat of their sacrifices, & did drinke the wine of their drinke offring? let them rise vp, & help you: let him be your refuge.

  • Jer 19:13
    70%

    13For the houses of Ierusalem, and the houses of the Kings of Iudah shalbe defiled as the place of Topheth, because of al the houses vpo whose roofes they haue burnt incense vnto all the host of heauen, and haue powred out drinke offerings vnto other gods.

  • Isa 5:22
    70%

    22Wo vnto them that are mightie to drinke wine, and to them that are strong to powre in strong drinke:

  • Hos 9:2
    70%

    2The floore, and the wine presse shall not feede them, and the newe wine shall faile in her.

  • Hos 4:8
    70%

    8They eate vp the sinnes of my people, and lift vp their mindes in their iniquitie.

  • 1 Kgs 8:31
    70%

    31When a man shall trespasse against his neighbour, & he lay vpon him an othe to cause him to sweare, and the swearer shall come before thine altar in this house,

  • Jer 8:10
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    10Therefore will I giue their wiues vnto others, and their fieldes to them that shall possesse them: for euery one from the least euen vnto the greatest is giuen to couetousnesse, and from the Prophet euen vnto the Priest, euery one dealeth falsely.

  • Hos 5:4
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    4They will not giue their mindes to turne vnto their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the middes of them, and they haue not knowen the Lord.

  • Prov 31:5
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    5Lest he drinke and forget the decree, and change the iudgement of all the children of affliction.

  • Isa 1:22
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    22Thy siluer is become drosse: thy wine is mixt with water.

  • Hos 10:2
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    2Their heart is deuided: nowe shall they be founde faultie: he shall breake downe their altars: he shall destroy their images.

  • Hos 9:4
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    4They shall not offer wine to the Lorde, neither shall their sacrifices be pleasant vnto him: but they shall be vnto them as the bread of mourners: al that eate thereof, shalbe polluted: for their bread for their soules shall not come into the house of the Lord.

  • Isa 57:6
    69%

    6Thy portion is in the smooth stones of the riuer: they, they are thy lot: euen to them hast thou powred a drinke offering: thou hast offered a sacrifice. Should I delite in these?

  • Amos 8:4
    69%

    4Heare this, O yee that swallowe vp the poore, that ye may make the needie of the lande to fayle,

  • Jer 17:2
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    2They remember their altars as their children, with their groues by the greene trees vpon the hilles.

  • Ps 75:8
    69%

    8For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full mixt, and he powreth out of the same: surely all the wicked of the earth shall wring out and drinke the dregges thereof.

  • Hos 4:2
    69%

    2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and whoring they breake out, and blood toucheth blood.

  • Zeph 1:13
    69%

    13Therefore their goods shall be spoyled, and their houses waste: they shall also build houses, but not inhabite them, and they shall plant vineyards, but not drinke the wine thereof.

  • Exod 5:8
    69%

    8Notwithstanding lay vpon them the nober of bricke, which they made in time past, diminish nothing thereof: for they be idle, therefore they crie, saying, Let vs go to offer sacrifice vnto our God.