Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Amos 8:5

“Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?”

Amos 8:5 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Amos 8:5, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Nehemiah 13:15In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and…
  • Micah 6:10Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
  • Hosea 12:7He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
  • Deuteronomy 25:13Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
  • Leviticus 19:36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
  • Isaiah 1:13Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniq…
  • Proverbs 16:11A just weight and balance are the LORD’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.
  • Exodus 20:8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
  • Proverbs 11:1A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
  • Proverbs 20:23Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
  • Psalms 81:3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
  • Ezekiel 45:10Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

More to meet God in Amos

Amos 2:4Amos 4:1Amos 2:11Amos 4:10Amos 5:15Amos 5:12Amos 4:13Amos 8:14Amos 6:13Amos 3:2Amos 9:11Amos 4:7Amos 5:2Amos 5:14

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.

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