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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Amos 8:5 - 8:5
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So greedy are they of unjust gain that they cannot spare a single day, however sacred, from pursuing it. They are strangers to God and enemies to themselves, who love market days better than sabbath days; and they who have lost piety will not long keep honesty. The new moons (Num 10:10) and sabbaths were to be kept without working or trading (Neh 10:31).
set forth wheat - literally, “open out” stores of wheat for sale.
ephah - containing three seahs, or above three pecks.
making ... small - making it below the just weight to purchasers.
shekel great - taking from purchasers a greater weight of money than was due. Shekels used to be weighed out in payments (Gen 23:16). Thus they committed a double fraud against the law (Deu 25:13, Deu 25:14).