Amos 2:6
Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
5And I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
Cross References
2 Kings 18:12because they hearkened not to the voice of Jehovah their God, but transgressed his covenant, all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded; and they would not hear nor do it.
Isaiah 10:2to turn away the poor from judgment, and to take away the right from the afflicted of my people; that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Ezekiel 23:5And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians [her] neighbours,
Hosea 4:11Fornication, and wine, and new wine take away the heart.
Hosea 8:4They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not; of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
Joel 3:3and they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk [it].
Matthew Henry on Amos 2:2-9
The Judgment of Moab and of Judah; The Judgment of Israel. ( b. c. 790.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: 2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: 3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith… Read the whole commentary →