Amos 8:6

Modern King James Version

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

Nehemiah 5:8

And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers, the Jews who were sold to the nations. And will you even sell your brothers? Or shall they be sold to us? And they were silent and did not find an answer.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you gained by extortion of your neighbors, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord Jehovah.

Joel 3:3

And they have cast lots for My people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, so that they might drink.

Joel 3:6

You have also sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you might remove them far from their border.

Amos 2:6

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals;

Amos 3:9

Make it heard at the palaces of Ashdod, and the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say: Gather yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great uproars in its midst, and the oppressed in its midst.

Amos 4:1

Hear this Word, cows of Bashan who are in the mountain of Samaria; who press down the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring in, that we may drink.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample the poor, even to make the humble of the land to fail,

Zechariah 5:6

And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goes forth. And he said, This is their form in all the earth.