Listen to this, you women of Samaria, who grow fat like the well-fed cows of Bashan, who mistreat the weak, oppress the poor, and demand that your husbands keep you supplied with liquor!

Ahab went home, depressed and angry over what Naboth had said to him. He lay down on his bed, facing the wall, and would not eat.

Prejudice is wrong. But some judges will do wrong to get even the smallest bribe.

When they want fields, they seize them; when they want houses, they take them. No one's family or property is safe.

You drive the women of my people out of the homes they love, and you have robbed their children of my blessings forever.

There is not an honest person left in the land, no one loyal to God. Everyone is waiting for a chance to commit murder. Everyone hunts down their own people.

They are all experts at doing evil. Officials and judges ask for bribes. The influential people tell them what they want, and so they scheme together.

Its officials are like roaring lions; its judges are like hungry wolves, too greedy to leave a bone until morning.

I know how terrible your sins are and how many crimes you have committed. You persecute good people, take bribes, and prevent the poor from getting justice in the courts.

That is how you keep the poor from having their rights and from getting justice. That is how you take the property that belongs to widows and orphans.

Do not disgrace your father by having intercourse with any of his other wives.

Do not have intercourse with your daughter-in-law

Some commit adultery, and others seduce their daughters-in-law or their half sisters.

Now, it is actually being said that there is sexual immorality among you so terrible that not even the heathen would be guilty of it. I am told that a man is sleeping with his stepmother!

If any of you give one of your children to Molech and make my sacred Tent unclean and disgrace my holy name, I will turn against you and will no longer consider you my people.

But because you have shown such contempt for the LORD in doing this, your child will die."

Wherever they went, they brought disgrace on my holy name, because people would say, 'These are the people of the LORD, but they had to leave his land.'

The scripture says, "Because of you Jews, the Gentiles speak evil of God."