Text: Amos 5:10
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 16:18-19
Subject: Hatred of justice at the city gate
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: Amos 5:10 condemns those who "hate the one who reproves in the gate" (בַּשָּׁעַר, basha'ar), the very judicial setting Deuteronomy 16:18-19 established when it commanded Israel to appoint judges and officers "in all your gates" to administer justice without partiality or bribery. The gate was the designated space for covenant justice in Israel's social order. Amos's indictment reveals that the Deuteronomic institution has been inverted: the gate designed for righteous adjudication has become a place where truth-tellers are despised and the integrity the law demanded is treated with contempt.
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Text: Deuteronomy 16:18-19
OT Text Referred to: Amos 5:10
Subject: Judicial corruption at the gate
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: Deuteronomy 16:18-19 commands judges to exercise impartial justice, forbidding them to "deny justice or show partiality" or "accept a bribe" (שֹׁחַד, shochad). Amos 5:10 exposes the comprehensive violation of this command: "they hate the one who reproves in the gate (בַּשַּׁעַר, basha'ar) and despise the one who speaks with integrity." The Deuteronomic gate court—designed to protect the vulnerable—has become the instrument of their oppression. Amos's indictment assumes the Deuteronomic judicial standard as its baseline, making the prophecy function as a covenant lawsuit: Israel stands accused of violating the very justice system Moses commanded her to establish.