Talk:Amos
In Chuck Swindoll’s overview of Amos he says
"They were selling off needy people for goods, taking advantage of the helpless, oppressing the poor, and the men were using women immorally (Amos 2:6–8;[1] 3:10;Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content 4:1;Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content 5:11–12Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content; 8:4–6Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content). Drunk on their own economic success and intent on strengthening their financial position, the people had lost the concept of caring for one another;"
- ↑ 6 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; 7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name: 8 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.