Amos 8:6

English Standard Version 2016

that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

Cross References

Amos 2:6

Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals—

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end,

Joel 3:6

You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.

Joel 3:3

and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.

Nehemiah 5:8

and said to them, “We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say.

Amos 3:9

Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdod and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt, and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great tumults within her, and the oppressed in her midst.”

Amos 4:1

“Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

Zechariah 5:6

And I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the basket that is going out.” And he said, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”