 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1874 - 200 pàgines
...the younge: ones. But I will send a fire upon Judah, And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. Thus saith the LORD ; For three transgressions of...righteous for silver, And the poor for a pair of shoes ; And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar ; And they drink the wine... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1874 - 422 pàgines
...fathers have walked : But I will send a fire upon Judah, And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. Thus saith the LORD ; For three transgressions of...righteous for silver, And the poor for a pair of shoes ; And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar ; And they drink the wine... | |
 | Frederick Powell - 1874 - 290 pàgines
...and to indicate the remedy. In the following passage the human and the Divine plan are contrasted. " Thus saith the Lord ; For three transgressions of...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes. . . And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine... | |
 | General Conference of the Congregational Churches in Maine - 1875 - 1172 pàgines
...back by fraud, crieth. Has not every evil which cursed the earth, been connected with covetousness ; " sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes!" Robbing the Lord of His, it is called " Idolatry." Is He not denied among His professed children, by... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1875 - 542 pàgines
...that pollute God among the people " for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread;" of those who sell "the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes ? " 1 The sudden crisis of temptation might seem frightful, but its issue was decided by the entire... | |
 | Wayne C. Booth - 1970 - 398 pàgines
...and the transgressions of Judah, each of them to be destroyed; and finally down to the doors of home: Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Israel,...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes. Scholars say that Amos moves in here, geographically, from the furthest outreaches right down to the... | |
 | International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament. Congress - 1972 - 316 pàgines
...verse, and that the sin that is connected with the numerical verse is solely the one mentioned in vs. 6: "because they sold the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes". But the above-mentioned considerations lead me to think that not only is there no itemization in ii... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - 1978 - 644 pàgines
...I will send a fire upon Judah, 6 Thus saith the Lord; And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. For three transgressions of Israel, And for four,...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:... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 284 pàgines
...polluting God "for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread" (13:19). Amos describes those selling "the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes" (2:6). There are still those who sell honor and truth, barter away their souls for money, sacrifice... | |
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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... 
