Amos 8:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

Amos 8:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Amos 5:11
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Isaiah 32:6-7
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. …
Amos 2:6-7
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Alms Beggars Oppression Philanthropy Poor Selfishness Taskmasters

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-10)

God is here contending with proud oppressors, and showing them, I. The heinousness of the sin they were guilty of; in short, they had the character of the unjust judge (Luke 18:2) that neither feared God nor regarded man. 1. Observe them in their devotions, and you will say, “They had no reverence for God.” Bad as they are, they do indeed keep up a show and form of godliness; they observe the sabb…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. Hear--The nobles needed to be urged thus, as hating to hear reproof. swallow up the needy--or, “gape after,” that is, pant for their goods; so the word is used, Job 7:2, Margin. to make the poor ... to fail--“that they (themselves) may be placed alone in the midst of the earth” (Is 5:8).