Amos 8:6

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat.

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:8

And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and would ye even sell your brethren, and should they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

Ezekiel 22:12

In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD

Joel 3:3

and they have cast lots for my people: and have given a boy for an 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 ye sold unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border:

Amos 2:6

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

Amos 3:9

Publish ye 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 what great tumults are therein, and what oppressions in the midst thereof.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say unto their lords, Bring, and let us drink.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Zechariah 5:6

And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance in all the land: