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Amos 5:12

Amos 5:12
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.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins,.... Their sins were numerous, and of the first magnitude, attended with very heavy aggravations; and these with all their circumstances…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

For I know - Literally, “I have known.” They thought that God did not know, because He did not avenge; as the Psalmist says, “Thy judgments are far above out of his sight” Psa 10:5. People who do not…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

I know your manifold transgressions - I have marked the multitude of your smaller crimes, as well as your mighty offenses. Among their greater offenses were,

1. Their afflicting the righteous.

2.…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Amos 5:4-15

This is a message from God to the house of Israel, in which,

I. They are told of their faults, that they might see what occasion there was for them to repent and reform, and that, when they were…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Amos 5:12-13

Israel's desperate moral condition, a justification of the sentence just pronounced upon it.