Amos 8:6

A Conservative Version

that we may buy the poor for silver, and a needy man for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

Cross References

Amos 2:6

Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have sold a righteous man for silver, and a needy man for a pair of shoes--

Amos 8:4

Hear this, O ye who would swallow up a needy man, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Joel 3:6

and have sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Grecians, that ye may remove them far from their border,

Joel 3:3

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

Nehemiah 5:8

And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers the Jews, who were sold to the nations, and would ye even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and found not a word.

Amos 3:9

Publish ye in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold what great tumults are in it, and what oppressions are in the midst of it.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink.

Ezekiel 22:12

In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood. Thou have taken interest and increase. And thou have greedily gained from thy neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says lord LORD.

Zechariah 5:6

And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their appearance in all the land