Amos 2:6

New Revised Standard Version

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals—

Cross References

2 Kings 18:11

The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria, settled them in Halah, on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

2 Kings 18:12

because they did not obey the voice of the Lord their God but transgressed his covenant—all that Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded; they neither listened nor obeyed.

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be your spoil, and that you may make the orphans your prey!

Isaiah 29:21

those who cause a person to lose a lawsuit, who set a trap for the arbiter in the gate, and without grounds deny justice to the one in the right.

Ezekiel 22:13

See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest gain you have made, and at the blood that has been shed within you.

Joel 3:3

and cast lots for my people, and traded boys for prostitutes, and sold girls for wine, and drunk it down.

Joel 3:6

You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border.

Zechariah 11:5

Those who buy them kill them and go unpunished; and those who sell them say, “Blessed be the Lord, for I have become rich”; and their own shepherds have no pity on them.