Amos 2:6

New English Translation

This is what the Lord says: “Because Israel has committed three covenant transgressions – make that four! – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They sold the innocent for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals.

Cross References

2 Kings 18:11

The king of Assyria deported the people of Israel to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 18:12

This happened because they did not obey the Lord their God and broke his agreement with them. They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded.

Isaiah 10:2

to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

Isaiah 29:21

those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.

Ezekiel 22:13

“‘See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you.

Joel 3:3

and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.

Joel 3:6

You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks, removing them far from their own country.

Zechariah 11:5

Those who buy them slaughter them and are not held guilty; those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich.’ Their own shepherds have no compassion for them.