Amos 2:6
Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
5So will I 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 the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.
Isaiah 10:2To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right of the poor of My people, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Ezekiel 23:5And Oholah played the harlot when she was Mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians, warriors,
Hosea 4:11Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away the heart.
Hosea 8:4They have set up kings, but not from 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 3:3(4-3) And they have cast lots for My people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk.
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 →