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Amos 2:8
8When they lend money to poor people, they take the poor people's clothes. They do not return the clothes each night, as they should do. Instead they sleep on the clothes themselves. They do that at the places where they worship their gods. The rich people take money from poor people. They use that money to buy wine for themselves. Then they drink the wine in the temples of their gods.
Amos 2:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
- New International Version (NIV)They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. In the house of their god they drink wine taken as fines.
- English Standard Version (ESV)they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They lie down by every altar on clothes taken in pledge, And drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
Context of Amos 2:8
6The Lord says, ‘The people in Israel have done more and more wrong things. So I will certainly punish them. They sold people that did not do wrong things. They sold them for silver. And they sold poor people for only the price of shoes. 7They are not kind to poor people and they do not help them. A father and his son have sex with the same woman. They do not respect the holy way that I want them to live. When they lend money to poor people, they take the poor people's clothes. They do not return the clothes each night, as they should do. Instead they sleep on the clothes themselves. They do that at the places where they worship their gods. The rich people take money from poor people. They use that money to buy wine for themselves. Then they drink the wine in the temples of their gods. 9Remember the Amorites. They were big and strong. They were like the tallest cedar trees and the strongest oak trees. But I destroyed all of them. 10I brought you out of Egypt. After that, I led you through the wilderness for 40 years. Then I took you to the land where the Amorites lived, so that it would belong to you.
Read all of Amos 2Amos 2:8 word by word
וְעַל־בְּגָדִ֤ים חֲבֻלִים֙ יַטּ֔וּ אֵ֖צֶל כָּל־מִזְבֵּ֑חַ וְיֵ֤ין עֲנוּשִׁים֙ יִשְׁתּ֔וּ בֵּ֖ית אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- downנָטָהnâţâh · to stretchH5186
- upon clothesבֶּ֫גֶדbeged · garmentH899
- laid to pledgeחָבַלchâbal · to pledgeH2254
- byאֵ֫צֶל'êtsel · besideH681
- every altarמִזְבֵּחַmizbêach · altarH4196
- and they drinkשָׁתָהshâthâh · to drinkH8354
- the wineיַ֫יִןyayin · wineH3196
- of the condemnedעָנַשׁ‛ânash · to fineH6064
- the houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: templeH1004
- of their godאֱלֹהִים'ĕlôhîym · GodH430
Cross-references for Amos 2:8
- Exodus 22:26You may take someone's coat as a guarantee that he will pay you back. But you must always return his coat to him before sunset.
- Deuteronomy 24:12If the person is poor, do not take his coat and keep it with you all night.
- Ezekiel 18:7He is not cruel to other people. When he lends money to someone, he gives back anything that he has taken as a guarantee. He does not take things that belong to other people. He gives food to hungry people. He gives clothes to poor people.
- Amos 6:4You lie on beautiful, expensive beds. You do not work, but you rest all the time. You eat fat young sheep and cows.
- Isaiah 57:7You go up to the tops of high hills, and you lie down there to have sex. You go there to offer sacrifices to your gods.
- Ezekiel 23:41You sat on a beautiful bed with a table in front of it. On the table you put incense and olive oil that I had given to you.
- 1 Corinthians 8:10You may be eating food in a place where people worship idols. Then another Christian sees you there. You know that the idols are not real gods. But the other Christian may have weak thoughts about this. So, because he sees you, he may think that he can eat that food too.
- 1 Corinthians 10:7Do not worship idols, as some of them did. The Bible says: ‘The people sat down to eat and to drink. After that, they got up from their meal and they danced.’
- Amos 6:6You drink lots of wine. You put beautiful oils on your bodies. But you are not sad that Joseph's descendants are destroying themselves as a nation.
- Judges 9:27They went out of the city to pick grapes in their fields. They squeezed the grapes to make wine. They went to the temple of their god and they had a party. They ate a lot of food and they drank a lot of wine. At their party, they cursed Abimelech.
- Hosea 4:8They get food to eat when the people bring their sin offerings to them. So the priests are happy when the people do bad things, because they get more food to eat.
Commentaries on Amos 2:8
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8The irony is that those who oppressed the poor openly displayed their sins during religious festivals. The law of Moses allowed a lender to take a poor man’s cloak as security for a debt. However, the cloak had to be returned before nightfall, because nights were cold (Exodus 22:26–27; Deuteronomy 24:12–13). The law also said that a widow’s clothing must never be taken as security for a debt (Deuteronomy 24:17). fines: The wealthy also imposed unjust…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. lay themselves ... upon clothes laid to pledge--the outer garment, which Ex 22:25-27 ordered to be restored to the poor man before sunset, as being his only covering. It aggravated the crime that they lay on these clothes in an idol temple. by every altar--They partook in a recumbent posture of their idolatrous feasts; the ancients being in the habit of reclining at full length in eating, the upper part of the body resting on the left elbow, not…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Amos 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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