Amos 8:5
Amos · Old Testament · Chapter 8
“Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?”Amos 8:5
What Does Amos 8:5 Mean?
Amos 8:5 is found in the book of Amos, chapter 8, verse 5 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Amos 8:5 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Proverbs 11:1“A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.”Nehemiah 13:15“In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.”Hosea 2:11“I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.”Hosea 12:7“He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.”Micah 6:10“Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?”Leviticus 19:36“Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.”Deuteronomy 25:13“Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.”Zechariah 5:6“And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.”Exodus 20:8“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.”Proverbs 16:11“A just weight and balance are the LORD’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.”Proverbs 20:23“Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.”Isaiah 1:13“Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.”Numbers 10:10“Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.”Deuteronomy 25:16“For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.”1 Samuel 13:12“Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.”2 Kings 4:23“And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.”Psalms 81:3“Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.”Ezekiel 45:10“Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.”1 Thessalonians 4:6“That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.”Leviticus 6:2“If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;”
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