Amos 8
Treated in 7 passages across the library.
The verses these writers stop at
- 8:11 The days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I am going to send famine through the land: not hunger for bread or thirst for water, but for hearing the words of the LORD. 4
- 8:5 who say, "When will the new moon festival be over, so that we can sell grain? When will the sabbath end, so that we can put out wheat for sale, making the ephah smaller and the shekel heavier, and cheating with dishonest scales, 3
- 8:6 so that we can purchase the poor with silver and the needy for the price of a pair of sandals, and even sell the sweepings with the wheat?" 1
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Where it is preached
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.8 The Eighth Commandment cites Amos 8: 5
…weights and measures steals from others what is their due. ‘Making the ephah small.’ Amos 8: 5. The ephah was a measure the Jews used in selling. Some made the ephah small, and gave…
- Knots Untied ·
The Sabbath cites Amos viii. 5
…like those of old who said, “When will the Sabbath be gone?”—“What a weariness is it!” (Amos viii. 5; Mal. i. 13.) It is an awful conclusion, but it is impossible to avoid it. Scripture…
- The Key Teachings of Corrie ten Boom ·
The Bible in the Barracks cites AMOS 8:11
…not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. AMOS 8:11 Most readers of this book own several Bibles and read none of them as often as they read…
- Portraits of Courage – Pandita Ramabai ·
A Famine of the Word cites Amos 8:11
…not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah.” — Amos 8:11, ASV The Book She Had Been Given Ramabai owed her faith, as she saw it, to a book. In…
- Portraits of Courage – Pandita Ramabai ·
Appendix B: Chapter-by-Chapter Study and Reflection Guide cites Amos 8:11
…the Bible into the plain speech of village women and gave it away. Scriptures to revisit Amos 8:11; Psalm 119:130; Zechariah 4:6. Reflection 1. Why does plain language matter in Scripture?…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 22 — This Doctrine Confirmed by Proofs from Scripture cites Amos 8:11
…(Amos 4:7); and declares in another passage, that there will be a famine of the word (Amos 8:11), does not lay himself under a fixed obligation to call all equally. And he who…
- Faithful With Little ·
Gain All You Can, Honestly cites Amos 8:5-6
…and cheating with dishonest scales, so that we can purchase the poor with silver” (Amos 8:5-6). They went to worship, but their hearts were in their shops, and their shops were built…