Amos 2:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And they lay themselves down, &c.— Amos here reproves the Israelites for three abuses. The first, that they kept the clothes which they had received as pledges from the poor, contrary to the law, which commanded that the clothes received in pledge should be returned by the going down of the sun. See Exodus 22:26. The second, that they made feasts in the houses of their gods, in the temples of their idols or golden calves; for then they no longer came to the temple at Jerusalem; and, as if to insult the holiness of God's laws, and to carry the marks of their iniquity even to the feet of their altars, they sat them down in their temples, upon the garments which they had received in pledge from the poor. The third abuse is, that they caroused at the expence of those whom they had unjustly condemned.