Amos 5:12 meaning and explanation
For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
Amos 5:12, Berean Standard Bible
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God speaks through Amos to the prosperous kingdom of Israel in the eighth century BC. The charge is specific: judges and elders who sat in the city gate, where legal cases were heard, were accepting bribes and ruling against the innocent, so the poor had no one to defend them.
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