Amos 8:6

Lighthouse Bible 2006

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the worthless part of the wheat?

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:8

And I said to them, We according to our ability have redeemed our kindred the Jews, which were sold to the heathen; and will you even sell your kindred? or shall they be sold to us? Then they held their peace, and had nothing to answer.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and unjust gain, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, says the Lord GOD.

Joel 3:3

And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

Joel 3:6

The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have you sold to the Greeks, that you might remove them far from their land.

Amos 2:6

Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

Amos 3:9

Announce in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

Zechariah 5:6

And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their likeness through all the earth.