Amos 2:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They stretch out on clothing seized as collateral; they do so right beside every altar! They drink wine bought with the fines they have levied; they do so right in the temple of their God!

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Referenced Verses

  • Amos 6:6 : 6 They drink wine from sacrificial bowls, and pour the very best oils on themselves. Yet they are not concerned over the ruin of Joseph.
  • Exod 22:26-27 : 26 If you do take the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down, 27 for it is his only covering– it is his garment for his body. What else can he sleep in? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.
  • Deut 24:12-17 : 12 If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering. 13 You must by all means return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just deed by the LORD your God. 14 You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages. 15 You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin. 16 Fathers must not be put to death for what their children do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin. 17 You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.
  • Judg 9:27 : 27 They went out to the field, harvested their grapes, squeezed out the juice, and celebrated. They came to the temple of their god and ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.
  • Isa 57:7 : 7 On every high, elevated hill you prepare your bed; you go up there to offer sacrifices.
  • Ezek 18:7 : 7 does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked,
  • Ezek 18:12 : 12 oppresses the poor and the needy, commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to idols, performs abominable acts,
  • Ezek 23:41 : 41 You sat on a magnificent couch, with a table arranged in front of it where you placed my incense and my olive oil.
  • Hos 4:8 : 8 They feed on the sin offerings of my people; their appetites long for their iniquity!
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands,“Bring us more to drink!”
  • Amos 6:4 : 4 They lie around on beds decorated with ivory, and sprawl out on their couches. They eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the middle of the pen.
  • 1 Cor 8:10 : 10 For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be“strengthened” to eat food offered to idols?
  • 1 Cor 10:7 : 7 So 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. You cannot take part in the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    7They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.

  • Ezek 18:12
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    12oppresses the poor and the needy, commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to idols, performs abominable acts,

  • Hos 7:14
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    14They do not pray to me, but howl in distress on their beds; They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from me.

  • Dan 5:4
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    4As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

  • Hos 4:18
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    18The Shameful Sinners Will Be Brought to Shame They consume their alcohol, then engage in cult prostitution; they dearly love their shameful behavior.

  • Num 25:2
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    2These women invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods; then the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

  • Isa 2:8
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    8Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.

  • Ezek 20:28
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    28I brought them to the land which I swore to give them, but whenever they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there and presented the offerings that provoke me to anger. They offered their soothing aroma there and poured out their drink offerings.

  • Job 22:6
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    6“For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.

  • Amos 6:4
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    4They lie around on beds decorated with ivory, and sprawl out on their couches. They eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the middle of the pen.

  • Isa 28:7
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    7Even these men stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer– priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions.

  • Hab 2:15
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    15“Woe to you who force your neighbor to drink wine– you who make others intoxicated by forcing them to drink from the bowl of your furious anger, so you can look at their naked bodies.

  • Ezek 22:12
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    12They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Amos 6:7
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    7Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile, and the religious banquets where they sprawl on couches will end.

  • Joel 1:13
    71%

    13Get dressed and lament, you priests! Wail, you who minister at the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God, because no one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of your God anymore.

  • Joel 3:3
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    3and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.

  • Mic 2:2
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    2They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.

  • Ezek 23:39
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    39On the same day they slaughtered their sons for their idols, they came to my sanctuary to desecrate it. This is what they have done in the middle of my house.

  • Jer 5:7
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    7The LORD asked,“How can I leave you unpunished, Jerusalem? Your people have rejected me and have worshiped gods that are not gods at all. Even though I supplied all their needs, they were like an unfaithful wife to me. They went flocking to the houses of prostitutes.

  • Ezek 22:10
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    10They have sexual relations with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.

  • Hos 13:2
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    2Even now they persist in sin! They make metal images for themselves, idols that they skillfully fashion from their own silver; all of them are nothing but the work of craftsmen! There is a saying about them:“Those who sacrifice to the calf idol are calf kissers!”

  • Job 24:3
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    3They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.

  • Ezek 23:37
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    37For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and their sons, whom they bore to me, they have passed through the fire as food to their idols.

  • Isa 5:11
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    11Beware, those who get up early to drink beer, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.

  • Job 24:9-11
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    70%

    9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

    10They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.

    11They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.

  • Hos 4:13
    70%

    13They sacrifice on the mountaintops, and burn offerings on the hills; they sacrifice under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is so pleasant. As a result, your daughters have become cult prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery!

  • Deut 32:38
    70%

    38who ate the best of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise and help you; let them be your refuge!

  • Jer 19:13
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    13The houses in Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled by dead bodies just like this place, Topheth. For they offered sacrifice to the stars and poured out drink offerings to other gods on the roofs of those houses.’”

  • Isa 5:22
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    22Beware, those who are champions at drinking, who display great courage when mixing strong drinks.

  • Hos 9:2
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    2Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them.

  • Hos 4:8
    70%

    8They feed on the sin offerings of my people; their appetites long for their iniquity!

  • 1 Kgs 8:31
    70%

    31“When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple, be willing to forgive the accused if the accusation is false.

  • Jer 8:10
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    10So I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least important to the most important of them, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. Prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

  • Hos 5:4
    69%

    4Their wicked deeds do not allow them to return to their God; for a spirit of idolatry is in them, and they do not acknowledge the LORD.

  • Prov 31:5
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    5lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.

  • Isa 1:22
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    22Your silver has become scum, your beer is diluted with water.

  • Hos 10:2
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    2Their hearts are slipping; soon they will be punished for their guilt. The LORD will break their altars; he will completely destroy their fertility pillars.

  • Hos 9:4
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    4They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the LORD; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the LORD.

  • Isa 57:6
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    6Among the smooth stones of the stream are the idols you love; they, they are the object of your devotion. You pour out liquid offerings to them, you make an offering. Because of these things how can I relent from judgment?

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    4Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

  • Jer 17:2
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    2Their children are always thinking about their altars and their sacred poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, set up beside the green trees on the high hills

  • Ps 75:8
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    8For the LORD holds in his hand a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices, and pours it out. Surely all the wicked of the earth will slurp it up and drink it to its very last drop.”

  • Hos 4:2
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    2There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.

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    13Their wealth will be stolen and their houses ruined! They will not live in the houses they have built, nor will they drink the wine from the vineyards they have planted.

  • Exod 5:8
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    8But you must require of them the same quota of bricks that they were making before. Do not reduce it, for they are slackers. That is why they are crying,‘Let us go sacrifice to our God.’