Amos 2:8
They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.
Note Or of their gods
Note Or they drink the wine of those who have been fined
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.
Note the condemned: or, such as have fined, or, mulcted
They lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge. In the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
Note The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- laid
- Exodus 22:26, 27; Deuteronomy 24:12–17; Ezekiel 18:7, 12
- by
- Amos 6:4; Isaiah 57:7; Ezekiel 23:41; 1 Corinthians 8:10; 1 Corinthians 10:7, 21
- they drink
- Amos 6:6; Judges 9:27; Hosea 4:8