Amos 8:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

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  • Amos 2:6 : 6 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes:
  • Amos 8:4 : 4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail,
  • Lev 25:39-42 : 39 And if your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and is sold to you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant: 40 But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the year of Jubilee: 41 And then he shall depart from you, both he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
  • Neh 5:1-5 : 1 And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. 2 For there were those who said, We, our sons, and our daughters are many: therefore we need to take grain for them, that we may eat and live. 3 Others said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses to buy grain because of the famine. 4 There were also those who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tax, against our lands and vineyards. 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.
  • Neh 5:8 : 8 And I said to them, According to our ability, we have redeemed our fellow Jews who were sold to the nations; and will you even sell your brethren, or should they be sold to us? Then they were silent and found nothing to answer.
  • Joel 3:3 : 3 And they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy in exchange for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine that they might drink.
  • Joel 3:6 : 6 The children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have sold to the Greeks, that you might remove them far from their border.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Amos 8:4-5
    2 verses
    85%

    4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail,

    5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the balances with deceit?

  • Amos 2:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes:

    7 They pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go in to the same maid, to profane My holy name:

  • Isa 10:2
    74%

    2 To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • Isa 3:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their princes: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

    15 What do you mean by crushing My people, and grinding the faces of the poor? says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

  • 2 Kgs 7:16
    72%

    16 And the people went out, and looted the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.

  • Amos 5:11
    72%

    11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

  • Lam 5:4
    72%

    4 We have drunk our own water for money; our wood is sold to us.

  • Ps 44:12
    72%

    12 You sell Your people for nothing and do not increase Your wealth by their price.

  • Neh 5:8
    71%

    8 And I said to them, According to our ability, we have redeemed our fellow Jews who were sold to the nations; and will you even sell your brethren, or should they be sold to us? Then they were silent and found nothing to answer.

  • Joel 3:8
    71%

    8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off, for the LORD has spoken it.

  • Neh 5:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 For there were those who said, We, our sons, and our daughters are many: therefore we need to take grain for them, that we may eat and live.

    3 Others said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses to buy grain because of the famine.

  • Deut 2:6
    70%

    6 You shall buy food from them with money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink.

  • Isa 26:6
    70%

    6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy.

  • Ezek 13:19
    70%

    19 Will you profane me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people who hear your lies?

  • Job 24:10
    70%

    10 They make him go naked without clothing and take away the sheaf from the hungry;

  • Zech 11:5
    70%

    5 Whose owners slay them and hold themselves not guilty. And those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich.' And their own shepherds do not pity them.

  • Mic 6:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is abominable?

    11 Shall I count them pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

  • Amos 4:1
    70%

    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 their masters, 'Bring, and let us drink.'

  • Joel 3:3-6
    4 verses
    70%

    3 And they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy in exchange for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine that they might drink.

    4 Yes, and what are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? Do you want to repay me a recompense? And if you repay me, swiftly and speedily I will return your recompense upon your own head;

    5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my precious pleasant things.

    6 The children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have sold to the Greeks, that you might remove them far from their border.

  • Hag 1:6
    70%

    6 You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but do not have enough; you drink, but are not filled; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.

  • Isa 58:7
    69%

    7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you do not hide yourself from your own flesh?

  • 2 Kgs 7:1
    69%

    1 Then Elisha said, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus says the LORD, Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

  • Rev 6:6
    69%

    6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see that you do not harm the oil and the wine.

  • Ruth 4:8
    69%

    8 So the kinsman said to Boaz, 'Buy it for yourself.' And he removed his sandal.

  • Hos 12:7
    69%

    7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress.

  • Zeph 1:11
    69%

    11 Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all those who handle silver are cut off.

  • Job 22:6
    69%

    6 For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Neh 10:31
    69%

    31 And if the people of the land bring goods or any food on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would forgo the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.

  • Isa 52:3
    69%

    3 For thus says the LORD, You have sold yourselves for nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money.

  • Job 24:4
    68%

    4 They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

  • Mic 3:11
    68%

    11 The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.

  • Neh 5:5
    68%

    5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.

  • Ezek 7:12
    68%

    12 The time has come, the day draws near; let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

  • Prov 11:26
    68%

    26 The people shall curse him who withholds grain, but blessing shall be on the head of him who sells it.

  • Lam 5:6
    68%

    6 We have given our hand to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians to be satisfied with bread.

  • Job 6:27
    68%

    27 Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.

  • Prov 28:8
    68%

    8 He who by usury and unjust gain increases his wealth gathers it for one who will pity the poor.

  • Ezek 7:19
    68%

    19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they shall not satisfy their souls, nor fill their stomachs, because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity.

  • Mic 2:4
    68%

    4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly spoiled: he has changed the portion of my people; how has he removed it from me! Turning away, he has divided our fields.

  • Isa 46:6
    68%

    6 They pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver on the scales, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall down, yes, they worship.

  • Isa 55:2
    68%

    2 Why do you spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance.

  • Prov 1:13
    68%

    13 We shall find all kinds of precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder;

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