6 ¶ Thus saith the LORD; For three
transgressions of Israela,
and for four, I will not turn away the
punishment thereof; because they asold the righteous
for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the
head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his
father will go in unto the same maid, to aprofane my
holy name:
8 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.
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6a transgressions of Israel
Moab and Judah have already been spoken against so now here Israel is the
northern kingdom the Kingdom of Ephraim which is Israel, Ephraim having been
given that name under the hand of Jacob (see JST Genesis 48). And while Amos
will primarily been the prophet to warn Israel/Ephraim, he will also speak to
Judah as well as it is all one and the same part of the whole of the house of
Jacob that will be destoryed and scattered. First the house of Israel in
Ephraim, the northern kingdom and later also the southern kingdom of Judah.
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