Amos 2:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the ground and obstruct the path of the needy. A man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl, profaning my holy name.

Cross References

Amos 5:12

For I know that your crimes are many and your sins innumerable. They oppress the righteous,  take a bribe, and deprive the poor of justice  at the city gates.

Ezekiel 22:11

One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbour’s wife;  another defiles his daughter-in-law with depravity; and yet another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

Isaiah 10:2

to keep the poor from getting a fair trial and to deprive the needy among my people of justice, so that widows can be their spoil and they can plunder the fatherless.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality  among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated  among the Gentiles   #– #a man is sleeping with his father’s wife.

Micah 2:9

You force  the women of my people out of their comfortable homes, and you take my blessing  , from their children for ever.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields  and seize them; they also take houses. They deprive a man of his home, a person of his inheritance.

Romans 2:24

For, as it is written: The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.   ,

Zephaniah 3:3

The  princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are wolves of the night, which leave nothing for   the morning.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,

Amos 4:1

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who are on the hill of Samaria, women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, ‘Bring us something to drink.’

Ezekiel 36:20

When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name,  because it was said about them, “These are the people of the Lord, yet they had to leave his land in exile.”

Proverbs 28:21

It is not good to show partiality   – yet even a courageous person may sin for a piece of bread.

1 Kings 21:4

So Ahab went to his palace resentful and angry  because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had told him. He had said, ‘I will not give you my ancestors’ inheritance.’ He lay down on his bed, turned his face away,  and didn’t eat any food.

2 Samuel 12:14

However, because you treated  the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son born to you will die.’

Leviticus 20:3

I will turn  against that man and cut him off from his people, because he gave his offspring to Molech, defiling my sanctuary  and profaning my holy name.

Leviticus 18:15

You are not to have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law.  She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sex with her.

Leviticus 18:8

You are not to have sex with your father’s wife;  she is your father’s family.

Hosea 4:14

I will not punish your daughters when they act promiscuously or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, for the men themselves go off with prostitutes and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes. People without discernment are doomed.

Leviticus 18:21

‘You are not to sacrifice any of your children in the fire  to Molech.  Do not profane the name  of your God; I am the Lord.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord brings this charge against the elders and leaders of his people: ‘You have devastated the vineyard. The plunder from the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15

Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor? ’ This is the declaration of the Lord  God of Armies.

Isaiah 10:1

Woe  to those enacting crooked statutes and writing oppressive laws

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from him, you will never live in the houses of cut stone you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.