Amos 8:6

American King James Version (1999)

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:8

And I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brothers the Jews, which were sold to the heathen; and will you even sell your brothers? or shall they be sold to us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you have they taken gifts to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, said the Lord GOD.

Joel 3:3

And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

Joel 3:6

The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have you sold to the Grecians, that you might remove them far from their border.

Amos 2:6

Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

Amos 3:9

Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the middle thereof, and the oppressed in the middle thereof.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

Zechariah 5:6

And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.