Amos 8:6

Webster's Bible (1833)

That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes, And sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"

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Referenced Verses

  • Amos 2:6 : 6 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because they have sold the righteous for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes;
  • Amos 8:4 : 4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, And cause the poor of the land to fail,
  • Lev 25:39-42 : 39 "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave. 40 As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee: 41 then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers. 42 For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.
  • Neh 5:1-5 : 1 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews. 2 For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live. 3 Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth. 4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [on] our fields and our vineyards. 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children: and, behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already]: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.
  • Neh 5:8 : 8 I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brothers the Jews, that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.
  • Joel 3:3 : 3 And have cast lots for my people, And have given a boy for a prostitute, And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
  • Joel 3:6 : 6 And have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, That you may 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 desire to swallow up the needy, And cause the poor of the land to fail,

    5 Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, Making the ephah small, and the shekel large, And dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

  • Amos 2:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because they have sold the righteous for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes;

    7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And deny justice to the oppressed; And a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

  • Isa 10:2
    74%

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

  • Isa 3:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, And their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.

    15 What do you mean that you crush my people, And grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.

  • 2 Kgs 7:16
    72%

    16 The people went out, and plundered the camp 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 Yahweh.

  • Amos 5:11
    72%

    11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, And take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of hewn stone, But you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink their wine.

  • Lam 5:4
    72%

    4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

  • Ps 44:12
    72%

    12 You sell your people for nothing, And have gained nothing from their sale.

  • Neh 5:8
    71%

    8 I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brothers the Jews, that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

  • Joel 3:8
    71%

    8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, And they will sell them to the men of Sheba, To a faraway nation, For Yahweh has spoken it."

  • Neh 5:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.

    3 Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.

  • Deut 2:6
    70%

    6 You shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for 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 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.

  • Job 24:10
    70%

    10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

  • Zech 11:5
    70%

    5 Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, 'Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;' and their own shepherds don't pity them.

  • Mic 6:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, And a short ephah{An ephah is a measure of volume, and a short ephah is made smaller than a full ephah for the purpose of cheating customers.} that is accursed?

    11 Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, And with a bag of deceitful weights?

  • Amos 4:1
    70%

    1 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their lords, "Bring, and let us drink."

  • Joel 3:3-6
    4 verses
    70%

    3 And have cast lots for my people, And have given a boy for a prostitute, And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

    4 "Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, And all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.

    5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold, And have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

    6 And have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, That you may remove them far from their border.

  • Hag 1:6
    70%

    6 You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough. You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it."

  • Isa 58:7
    69%

    7 Isn't it to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

  • 2 Kgs 7:1
    69%

    1 Elisha said, Hear you the word of Yahweh: thus says Yahweh, Tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be [sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

  • Rev 6:6
    69%

    6 I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A choenix{A choenix is a dry volume measure that is a little more than a litre (a little more than a quart).} of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don't damage the oil and the wine!"

  • Ruth 4:8
    69%

    8 So the near kinsman said to Boaz, Buy it for yourself. He drew off his shoe.

  • Hos 12:7
    69%

    7 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

  • Zeph 1:11
    69%

    11 Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.

  • Job 22:6
    69%

    6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, And stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Neh 10:31
    69%

    31 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

  • Isa 52:3
    69%

    3 For thus says Yahweh, You were sold 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 all hide themselves.

  • Mic 3:11
    68%

    11 Her leaders judge for bribes, And her priests teach for a price, And her prophets of it tell forturnes for money: Yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.

  • Neh 5:5
    68%

    5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children: and, behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already]: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

  • Ezek 7:12
    68%

    12 The time is come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all the multitude of it.

  • Prov 11:26
    68%

    26 People curse someone who withholds grain, But blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

  • Lam 5:6
    68%

    6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

  • Job 6:27
    68%

    27 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.

  • Prov 28:8
    68%

    8 He who increases his wealth by excessive interest Gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

  • Ezek 7:19
    68%

    19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

  • Mic 2:4
    68%

    4 In that day they will take up a parable against you, And lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"

  • Isa 46:6
    68%

    6 Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They 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 for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

  • Prov 1:13
    68%

    13 We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil.