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Let Justice Roll Down: Dishonest Scales and Worship God Will Not Accept | Amos 2–5
Episode Overview
Today we read Amos chapters 2 through 5, and Amos stops speaking in generalities. He names what is happening: people sold for silver and for a pair of sandals, the poor trampled, the needy pushed aside at the gate where justice was supposed to be done. He calls the wealthy women of Samaria cows of Bashan, who oppress the poor and tell their husbands to bring another drink. Merchants wait impatiently for the Sabbath to end so they can get back to skimping the measure, boosting the price, and cheating with dishonest scales.
What makes it sting is that the religion was going…
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