Amos 8:6

New King James Version

That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of sandals— Even sell the bad wheat?”

Cross References

Amos 2:6

Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they sell the righteous for silver, And the poor for a pair of sandals.

Amos 8:4

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

Joel 3:6

Also the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem You have sold to the Greeks, That you may remove them far from their borders.

Joel 3:3

They have cast lots for My people, Have given a boy as payment for a harlot, And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

Nehemiah 5:8

And I said to them, “According to our ability we have redeemed our Jewish brethren who were sold to the nations. Now indeed, will you even sell your brethren? Or should they be sold to us?” Then they were silenced and found nothing to say.

Amos 3:9

“Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, And in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say: ‘Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; See great tumults in her midst, And the oppressed within her.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, Who oppress the poor, Who crush the needy, Who say to your husbands, “Bring wine, let us drink!”

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.

Zechariah 5:6

So I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “It is a basket that is going forth.” He also said, “This is their resemblance throughout the earth: