Amos 8:6

You buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals, and you sell grain mixed with chaff.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

5You who ask, “When will the holy day be over so we can get back to selling grain? When will the Sabbath be over so we can open our storehouses, and cheat people with short measures and unfair scales?”

7The Lord God, of whom the descendants of Jacob are so proud, has sworn an oath: I will never forget the evil you have done.

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Cross References

Nehemiah 5:1Around this time some people and their wives started a tremendous argument with the other Jews.

Ezekiel 22:12Your people take money to murder others. You charge interest and make a profit on loans, and use extortion to get money from your neighbors. You have forgotten all about me, declares the Lord God.

Joel 3:6You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks so they could be sent far away from their land.

Amos 8:4Listen to this, you who trample down the needy, and wipe out the poor of the land.

Matthew Henry on Amos 8:5-11

The Sin and Doom of Oppressors. ( b. c. 785.) 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? 7 The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget… Read the whole commentary →

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