Saturday, December 5, 2015

Amos Analysis 5:12

Walk through Amos, verse by verse, with the great Bible Commentaries of Matthew Henry (1662 - 1714) & Adam Clarke (1760 - 1832)


5:12
 
 
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
KJV
 
{For I knew your great trespasses many, and your strong sins; enemies of the rightwise man, taking a
gift, and bearing down poor men in the gate. }Wycliffe's Bible
 
I know your manifold transgressions - I have marked the multitude of your smaller crimes, as well as your mighty offenses. Among their greater offenses were,
Their afflicting the righteous.
  • Taking bribes to blind their eyes in judgment. And,

  •      Refusing to hear the poor, who had no money to give them.