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Amos 5:12

King James Version (KJV)

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Amos 5:12

Verse 12 of 27

Scripture focus

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].

Amos 5:12 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Amos 5:12

Theological / Devotional

Bribe. This may refer not only to money given to win a case at law, but also to ransom or redemption money paid to avoid the penalty for committing a crime (see 1 Sam. 12:3; Prov. 6:35). The law forbade the taking of such ransom for the life of a murderer (see on Num. 35:31).

Turn aside the poor. This indicates depriving a poor man of the justice due him, because of his inability to pay (see Ex. 23:6; Deut. 16:19).

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