Question

Identify the social injustice condemned by prophet Amos.

Answer 1

1. Selling of food unfit for human/low quality consumption for the poor.
2. Enslaving the righteous, the needy and the poor/selling the needy /poor into slavery.
3. Sexual immorality
4. Temple prostitution
5. Greed and excessive luxury.
6. Use of false scales in business.
7. Selling the poor for as little as a pair of sandals.
8. Merchants charged high interest rates on the wheat thatthey sold.
9. Exploitation and oppression of the poor.