Amos 8:6

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Buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, even selling the sweepings of the wheat.'

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  • Amos 2:6 : 6 This is what the LORD says: '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.'
  • Amos 8:4 : 4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land,
  • Lev 25:39-42 : 39 If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves. 40 They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee. 41 Then they and their children are to be released, and they will return to their own family and to the property of their ancestors. 42 Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.
  • Neh 5:1-5 : 1 There arose a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. 2 Some were saying, 'We, along with our sons and daughters, are numerous. Let us get grain that we may eat and stay alive.' 3 Others were saying, 'We have had to mortgage our fields, vineyards, and houses to get grain during the famine.' 4 Still others were saying, 'We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.' 5 'Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Israelites, and our children are just like theirs, we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, and we are powerless to do anything about it, since our fields and vineyards now belong to others.'
  • Neh 5:8 : 8 I said to them, 'We have redeemed our fellow Jews who were sold to the nations, as much as we were able. Now, you are selling your own people, only for them to be sold back to us!' They stayed silent, unable to say a word.
  • Joel 3:3 : 3 They cast lots for my people; they traded a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine, which they drank.
  • Joel 3:6 : 6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own territory.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Amos 8:4-5
    2 verses
    85%

    4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land,

    5 saying, 'When will the new moon be over, so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath end, so we may market wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the scales with deceit?

  • Amos 2:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6 This is what the LORD says: '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.'

    7 'They trample on the dust of the earth on the heads of the poor and obstruct the way of the afflicted. A man and his father go to the same girl, so that they profane My holy name.'

  • Isa 10:2
    74%

    2 They deprive the poor of justice and rob the rights of the needy among my people, making widows their spoil and leaving orphans to be plundered.

  • Isa 3:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 The LORD enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of His people: 'It is you who have ruined the vineyard; the plunder taken from the poor is in your houses.'

    15 'Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?' declares the Lord, the LORD of Hosts.

  • 2 Kgs 7:16
    72%

    16 Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley were sold for a shekel, as the Lord had said.

  • Amos 5:11
    72%

    11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from them, though you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them; though you have planted delightful vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

  • Lam 5:4
    72%

    4 We must pay for the water we drink; even our wood comes at a price.

  • Ps 44:12
    72%

    12 You delivered us like sheep to be eaten and have scattered us among the nations.

  • Neh 5:8
    71%

    8 I said to them, 'We have redeemed our fellow Jews who were sold to the nations, as much as we were able. Now, you are selling your own people, only for them to be sold back to us!' They stayed silent, unable to say a word.

  • Joel 3:8
    71%

    8 I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a distant nation. The LORD has spoken.

  • Neh 5:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 Some were saying, 'We, along with our sons and daughters, are numerous. Let us get grain that we may eat and stay alive.'

    3 Others were saying, 'We have had to mortgage our fields, vineyards, and houses to get grain during the famine.'

  • Deut 2:6
    70%

    6 You are to purchase food from them with silver and eat it, and buy water from them with silver and drink it.

  • Isa 26:6
    70%

    6 The feet of the oppressed, the footsteps of the needy, will trample it.

  • Ezek 13:19
    70%

    19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to my people, who listen to lies, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not live.

  • Job 24:10
    70%

    10 They go about naked without clothing, and they carry sheaves while hungry.

  • Zech 11:5
    70%

    5 Their buyers slaughter them without remorse, and those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich.' Their own shepherds show no pity on them.

  • Mic 6:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10 Are there still treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and dishonest measures that are detestable?

    11 Shall I acquit a person with crooked scales and a bag of deceptive weights?

  • Amos 4:1
    70%

    1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your masters, 'Bring us something to drink!'

  • Joel 3:3-6
    4 verses
    70%

    3 They cast lots for my people; they traded a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine, which they drank.

    4 Now, what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are repaying me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your own heads.

    5 For you took my silver and my gold and carried my precious treasures into your temples.

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

  • Hag 1:6
    70%

    6 You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but are never satisfied. You drink but never have enough to be filled. You put on clothes but are not warm. The one who earns wages earns them to put into a bag with holes.

  • Isa 58:7
    69%

    7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and to bring the homeless poor into your house? When you see the naked, clothe them, and do not hide yourself from your own flesh and blood.

  • 2 Kgs 7:1
    69%

    1 Elisha said, "Listen to the word of the Lord. This is what the Lord says: About this time tomorrow, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel at the gate of Samaria."

  • Rev 6:6
    69%

    6 And I heard what seemed like a voice from among the four living creatures saying, 'A quart of wheat for a day’s wage, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wage, but do not harm the olive oil and the wine.'

  • Ruth 4:8
    69%

    8 So the kinsman-redeemer said to Boaz, 'Buy it yourself,' and he removed his sandal.

  • Hos 12:7
    69%

    7 But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice and wait for your God continually.

  • Zeph 1:11
    69%

    11 Wail, you residents of the Mortar, for all the merchants are silenced; all who handle silver are cut off.

  • Job 22:6
    69%

    6 For you have taken pledges from your brothers without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Neh 10:31
    69%

    31 They pledged not to give their daughters in marriage to the peoples of the land or to take their daughters for their sons.

  • Isa 52:3
    69%

    3 For this is what the LORD says: You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without money.

  • Job 24:4
    68%

    4 They turn the needy off the path, and the poor of the land are forced to hide together.

  • Mic 3:11
    68%

    11 Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for silver. Yet they lean on the LORD, saying, 'Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us.'

  • Neh 5:5
    68%

    5 'Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Israelites, and our children are just like theirs, we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, and we are powerless to do anything about it, since our fields and vineyards now belong to others.'

  • Ezek 7:12
    68%

    12 The time has come, the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon the whole crowd.

  • Prov 11:26
    68%

    26 People curse the one who hoards grain, but a blessing rests on the one who sells it.

  • Lam 5:6
    68%

    6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

  • Job 6:27
    68%

    27 You would even cast lots over the fatherless and barter away your friend.

  • Prov 28:8
    68%

    8 Whoever increases his wealth by charging interest and unfair gain gathers it for one who is kind to the poor.

  • Ezek 7:19
    68%

    19 They will throw their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated as unclean. Their silver and gold will not be able to save them on the day of the LORD's wrath. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it, for it has caused their stumbling into sin.

  • Mic 2:4
    68%

    4 On that day, they will take up a taunt against you and wail with bitter lament, saying: 'We are utterly ruined; my people's inheritance is divided. How it has been taken away from me! He removes our fields and gives them to traitors.'

  • Isa 46:6
    68%

    6 They pour out gold from their purses and weigh silver on a scale. They hire a craftsman to make it into a god, and they bow down and even worship it.

  • Isa 55:2
    68%

    2 Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of food.

  • Prov 1:13
    68%

    13 We will find all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder.

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