Holy Scripture

Amos 2:5

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 4, 5.) Thus says the Lord: On account of three crimes of Judah, and on account of four, I will not turn them aside, because they have rejected the law of the Lord and have not kept his commandments. They have been deceived by their idols, after which their fathers walked, and I will send fire into Judah, and it…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Amos

Source: Septuagint

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5And I will send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the foundations of Jerusalem.

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3And I will destroy the judge out of her, and slay all her princes with him, saith the Lord.

4Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of the children of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his ordinances, and their vain idols which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err.

— Amos 2:5 —

6Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for sandals,

7wherewith to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have smitten upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly: and a son and his father have gone in to the same maid, that they might profane the name of their God.

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