They hate him that rebuketh in the gate The usual place of administering justice, and of reproving and passing judgment on iniquity. The prophet now, after having descanted upon God's wondrous power, returns to enumerate the crimes of the Israelites; and begins with telling them, that they in general hated the judges who reproved them for their injurious conduct and acts of fraud or violence, and endeavoured to do justice to the oppressed. And besides this, they hated the prophets and private persons who rebuked ungodliness and unrighteousness, and exhorted men to the practice of piety and virtue.
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Amos 5:10
10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.