Cheating the Poor BGCSE

According to Amos chapter 5:10, what TWO things did the businessmen do?

• Hate anyone who challenges injustice.

• Despise anyone who speaks uprightly in defense for the innocent.

• Steal from the poor.

State TWO ways Amos said that the poor and needy were oppressed. [2]

According to Amos chapter 5:11, state what the Israelites have done to the poor that resulted in them not being able to dwell in their stone houses.

• Oppressed the poor

• Robbed the poor of grain.

• Failed to pay the poor their day's wage.

State why the Israelites were to seek good and not evil?

• So that they may live.

• God will be with them, as they said He is.

• God will bless their hands.

In Amos chapter 8:4, which two groups Amos mentioned as being cheated?

• The needy

• The poor

• The widows

• The strangers

Explain why the businessmen wanted to know when the new moon would have passed.

• To sell grain

• To harvest grain

• To cheat the poor

According to Amos chapter 8:5, when the people sold grain and trade wheat, what TWO measurements were used?

• Ephah

• Shekel

• Millimeters

What was used to purchase the needy?

• Silver coins

• A pair of sandals

• Grain

List TWO calamities that will come upon Israel because of their treatment of the poor. [2]