Amos 2:8

New American Bible - revised edition

Upon garments taken in pledge they recline beside any altar. Wine at treasury expense they drink in their temples.

Cross References

Exodus 22:25

If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you shall return it to him before sunset;

Isaiah 57:7

Upon a towering and lofty mountain you set up your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifice.

Ezekiel 18:12

oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not give back a pledge, raises his eyes to idols, does abominable things,

Ezekiel 18:7

if he oppresses no one, gives back the pledge received for a debt, commits no robbery; gives food to the hungry and clothes the naked;

Ezekiel 23:41

You sat on a magnificent couch, set before it a table, on which to lay my incense and oil.

Hosea 4:8

They feed on the sin of my people, and are greedy for their iniquity.

Hosea 7:14

They have not cried to me from their hearts when they wailed upon their beds; For wheat and wine they lacerated themselves; they rebelled against me.

Amos 3:14

On the day when I punish Israel for its crimes, I will also punish the altars of Bethel; The horns of the altar shall be broken off and fall to the ground.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who live on the mount of Samaria: Who oppress the destitute and abuse the needy; Who say to your husbands, “Bring us a drink!”

Amos 6:4

Those who lie on beds of ivory, and lounge upon their couches; Eating lambs taken from the flock, and calves from the stall;

Amos 6:6

Who drink wine from bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils, but are not made ill by the collapse of Joseph;

1 Corinthians 10:21

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.

1 Corinthians 10:7

And do not become idolaters, as some of them did, as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.”

1 Corinthians 8:10

If someone sees you, with your knowledge, reclining at table in the temple of an idol, may not his conscience too, weak as it is, be “built up” to eat the meat sacrificed to idols?

Judges 9:27

They went out into the fields, harvested the grapes from their vineyards, trod them out, and held a festival. Then they went to the temple of their god, where they ate and drank and cursed Abimelech.