Amos 2:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink wine bought with fines they imposed.

Cross References

Exodus 22:25

“If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest from them.

Isaiah 57:7

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

Ezekiel 18:12

oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,

Ezekiel 18:7

does not oppress anyone but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

Ezekiel 23:41

you sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.

Hosea 4:8

They feed on the sin of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.

Hosea 7:14

They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; they gash themselves for grain and wine; they rebel against me.

Amos 3:14

On the day I punish Israel for its transgressions, I will punish the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring something to drink!”

Amos 6:4

Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory and lounge on their couches and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the stall,

Amos 6:6

who drink wine from bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!

1 Corinthians 10:21

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

1 Corinthians 10:7

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

1 Corinthians 8:10

For if others see you, who possess knowledge, eating in the temple of an idol, might they not, since their conscience is weak, be encouraged to the point of eating food sacrificed to idols?

Judges 9:27

They went out into the field and gathered the grapes from their vineyards, trod them, and celebrated. Then they went into the temple of their god, ate and drank, and ridiculed Abimelech.