Amos 8:6

God's Word

We can buy the poor with money and the needy for a pair of sandals. We can sell the husks mixed in with the wheat.”

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:8

Then I told them, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish relatives who had been sold to other nations. Now you are selling your Jewish relatives so that we have to buy them back again!” They were unable to say anything.

Ezekiel 22:12

Other people take bribes to murder people. You collect interest and make excessive profits. You make profits by mistreating your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the Almighty Lord.

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.

Amos 2:6

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.

Amos 3:9

Announce in the palaces of Ashdod and in the palaces of Egypt, “Gather together on the mountains of Samaria. See the widespread confusion and oppression in Samaria.”

Amos 4:1

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria. You women oppress the poor and abuse the needy. You say to your husbands, “Get some wine! Let’s drink!”

Amos 8:4

Listen to this, those who trample on the needy and ruin those who are oppressed in the world.

Zechariah 5:6

“What is it?” I asked. “A basket is coming,” he said. Then he added, “This is what the people’s sins look like all over the earth.”