Amos 8:6

This is so we can sell bad wheat, buy the poor with silver, 1 and the needy for a pair of sandals.”

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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

5They say, 1 “When will the new moon be over, 1 so we can sell grain again? 1 When will the Sabbath day be over, 1 so that we can sell wheat? 1 We will make the measure small 1 and increase the price, 1 as we cheat with false scales. 1

7Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their actions.” 1

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Cross References

Nehemiah 5:1Then the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews.

Ezekiel 22:12These men take bribes within you in order to pour out blood and you have taken interest and gained too much profit, and you have damaged your neighbors through oppression, and you have forgotten me—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.

Joel 3:6You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, 1 in order to remove them far from their territory. 1

Amos 8:4Listen to this, you who trample the needy 1 and remove 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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