Amos 2:6

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Thus says the LORD: *For three transgressions of Yisra'el, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

Cross References

2 Kings 18:11

The king of Ashur carried Yisra'el away to Ashur, and put them in Chalach, and on the Chavor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Madai,

2 Kings 18:12

because they didn't obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moshe the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.

Isaiah 10:2

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Isaiah 29:21

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

Ezekiel 22:13

Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.

Joel 3:3

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

Joel 3:6

and have sold the children of Yehudah and the children of Yerushalayim to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.

Zechariah 11:5

Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich;' and their own shepherds don't pity them.