Amos 2:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

lay themselves down, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 22:26; Deuteronomy 24:12), App-92. every altar. The sin lay in the fact that the law of the one altar had been known as an ancient commandment as well as the law concerning the restoration of pledged garments.

wine, Hebrew. Yayin. App-27.

of the condemned: or, exacted wine.

Amos 2:8

8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemnedb in the house of their god.