Amos 2:6

God's Word

This is what the Lord says: Because Israel has committed three crimes, and now a fourth crime, I will not change my plans. The people of Israel sell the righteous for money and the needy for a pair of sandals.

Cross References

2 Kings 18:11

The king of Assyria took the Israelites to Assyria as captives. He put them in Halah, along the Habor River in Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 18:12

This happened because they refused to obey the Lord their God and disregarded the conditions of the promise  he made to them. They refused to obey everything that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded.

Isaiah 10:2

They deprive the poor of justice. They take away the rights of the needy among my people. They prey on widows and rob orphans.

Isaiah 29:21

those who make people sin with words, those who lay traps for judges, those who, without any reason, deny justice to people who are in the right.

Ezekiel 22:13

“ ‘I will use my power against you because of the excessive profits you have made and the murders you have committed.

Joel 3:3

They threw dice for my people. They traded boys for prostitutes. They sold girls so that they could buy wine to drink.

Joel 3:6

You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks. That way you could send them far away from their land.

Zechariah 11:5

Those who buy them will kill them and go unpunished. Those who sell them will say, “Praise the Lord! I’ve become rich!” Even their own shepherds will have no pity on them.