Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Amos 5:12

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12. they afflict . . . they take —rather, "(ye) who afflict . . . take." bribe —literally, a price with which one who has an unjust cause ransoms himself from your sentence ( :- , Margin; Proverbs 6:35 ). turn aside the poor in the gate —refuse them their right in the place of justice ( Amos 2:7 ; Isaiah 29:21 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-13" class="com-number"