Amos 8:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff! ’

Cross References

Amos 2:6

The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,

Joel 3:6

You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks  to remove them far from their own territory.

Joel 3:3

They cast lots for my people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

Nehemiah 5:8

and said, ‘We have done our best to buy back our Jewish countrymen who were sold to foreigners, but now you sell your own countrymen, and we have to buy them back.’  They remained silent and could not say a word.

Amos 3:9

Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod and on the citadels in the land of Egypt: Assemble on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great turmoil in the city and the acts of oppression within it.

Amos 4:1

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who are on the hill of Samaria, women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, ‘Bring us something to drink.’

Ezekiel 22:12

People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood.  You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbours.  You have forgotten me.  This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Zechariah 5:6

So I asked, ‘What is it? ’ He responded, ‘It’s a measuring basket  that is approaching.’ And he continued, ‘This is their iniquity  in all the land.’