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Amo 8:5 — 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?

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

When		Num 10:10; Num 28:11-15; 2Ki 4:23; Psa 81:3,4; Isa 1:13; Col 2:16
new moon		or, month
be gone		Mal 1:13
and the		Exd 20:8-10; Neh 13:15-21; Isa 58:13; Rom 8:6,7
set forth		Heb. open
making		Lev 19:36; Deu 25:13-16; Pro 11:1; Pro 16:11; Pro 20:23; Eze 45:10-12; Mic 6:10,11
falsifying the balances by deceit		Heb. perverting the balances of deceit. Hsa 12:7

Correlating Passages

When

	Num 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.
	Num 28:11	And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
	Num 28:12	And three tenth deals of flour [for] a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of flour [for] a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram;
	Num 28:13	And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil [for] a meat offering unto one lamb; [for] a burnt offering of a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
	Num 28:14	And their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a bullock, and the third [part] of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth [part] of an hin unto a lamb: this [is] the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
	Num 28:15	And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the LORD shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
	2Ki 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.
	Psa 81:3	Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
	Psa 81:4	For this [was] a statute for Israel, [and] a law of the God of Jacob.
	Isa 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.
	Col 2:16	Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath [days]:

be gone

Mal 1:13

Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness [is it]! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought [that which was] torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.

and the

	Exd 20:8	Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
	Exd 20:9	Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
	Exd 20:10	But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates:
	Neh 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.
	Neh 13:16	There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
	Neh 13:17	Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing [is] this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
	Neh 13:18	Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
	Neh 13:19	And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and [some] of my servants set I at the gates, [that] there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.
	Neh 13:20	So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
	Neh 13:21	Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do [so] again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no [more] on the sabbath.
	Isa 58:13	If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words:
	Rom 8:6	For to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace.
	Rom 8:7	Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

making

	Lev 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.
	Deu 25:13	Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
	Deu 25:14	Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
	Deu 25:15	[But] thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
	Deu 25:16	For all that do such things, [and] all that do unrighteously, [are] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
	Pro 11:1	A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.
	Pro 16:11	A just weight and balance [are] the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
	Pro 20:23	Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance [is] not good.
	Eze 45:10	Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
	Eze 45:11	The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
	Eze 45:12	And the shekel [shall be] twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
	Mic 6:10	Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?
	Mic 6:11	Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

falsifying the balances by deceit

Hsa 12:7

[He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

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Scott, Thomas. "Amos 8:5," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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