Commentary for Amos 2:8
וְעַל־בְּגָדִ֤ים חֲבֻלִים֙ יַטּ֔וּ אֵ֖צֶל כָּל־מִזְבֵּ֑חַ וְיֵ֤ין עֲנוּשִׁים֙ יִשְׁתּ֔וּ בֵּ֖ית אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃
And they lay themselves down beside every altar Upon clothes taken in pledge, And in the house of their God they drink The wine of them that have been fined.
Rashi on Amos
And they recline on pledged garments—Jonathan renders: On couches of a pledge they dine. They settle [the charge as] a loan upon the poor. and they take a pledge from them, and make their garments into couches and recline on them at the time of their meal.
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Rashi on Amos
they recline—An expression of dining, for all their meals were eaten while leaning, for he would lean on his left side.
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and the wine of the fined ones—from whom they would exact money for fines and drink wine with it.
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in the house of their god—In the house of the idol that they had beside the altar.
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