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?
Cross-reference
In Amos 8:14, the chapter expands to include idolatry — the same society that cheats in business also swears by false gods.
Psalm 81:3 commands blowing the trumpet at the new moon—the very observance Amos's merchants disdain for profit. Direct contrast in attitude.
Hosea 12:7 describes a merchant with false balances who loves to oppress, paralleling the cheating in Amos 8:5.
Isaiah 58:13 calls the Sabbath a delight—opposite to the merchants' attitude of resenting the holy day as a hindrance to business.
Isaiah 1:13 has God rejecting new moon and Sabbath when injustice prevails—same hypocrisy as Amos's merchants who observe rituals yet cheat.
Proverbs 20:23 says unequal weights are an abomination, directly paralleling the dishonest scales in Amos 8:5.
Micah 6:10 condemns the scant measure as a curse, paralleling the dishonest bushel in Amos 8:5.
Proverbs 11:1 declares false balances an abomination to the Lord, echoing the condemnation of dishonest scales.
Nehemiah 13:15-21 recounts Nehemiah stopping Sabbath trade—an identical situation to Amos's rebuke of merchants profiting on holy days.
Malachi 1:13 shows priests calling worship a weariness—mirroring the merchants' grumbling about Sabbaths as an interruption to profit.
Deuteronomy 25:13-16 forbids having two kinds of weights, condemning the cheating Amos 8:5 describes.
Numbers 28:11-15 details offerings for New Moons, showing proper worship — opposite of the impatient commercialization in Amos.
Numbers 10:10 prescribes trumpet blasts for New Moons and festivals, contrasting with the resentment of these observances for profit.
Leviticus 19:36 commands just balances and weights, directly opposing the dishonest scales condemned in Amos 8:5.
Exodus 20:8-10 commands Sabbath holiness—the very command the merchants in Amos disregard by planning to sell grain as soon as it ends.
Leviticus 19:35 prohibits dishonest measures — the very sin condemned in Amos 8:5.
Deuteronomy 25:16 calls dishonest dealing an abomination — the same divine verdict on the fraud in Amos 8:5.
Hosea 2:11 announces God's judgment ending new moons and Sabbaths — the very observances the merchants in Amos 8:5 begrudge.
Ezekiel 45:10-12 commands just ephah and bath for restored Israel, contrasting with the cheating in Amos 8:5.
Proverbs 16:11 notes that just balances belong to the Lord, contrasting with the false measures in Amos 8:5.
Zechariah 5:6 uses the ephah as a symbol of wickedness — the same measure used dishonestly in Amos 8:5.
Psalm 81:4 declares the new moon a statute from God, contrasting with the merchants' impatience to resume trade.