Amos 8:6

Who buy—for silver—the poor, and the needy for a pair of shoes,—and that the refuse of the grain we may sell.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

5Who say, When will the new moon, pass away, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath that we may open grain? who diminish the ephah, and increase the shekel, and who falsify by deceitful weights:

7Sworn hath Yahweh, by the Excellency of Jacob,—Surely I will never forget any of their doings!

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Cross References

Nehemiah 5:1Then came there to be a great outcry of the people and their wives,—against their brethren the Jews.

Ezekiel 22:12Bribes, have they accepted in thee, For the sake of shedding blood,-Interest and increase, hast thou accepted And thou hast overreached thy neighbour by oppression, And me, hast thou forgotten, Declareth My Lord Yahweh.

Joel 3:6And, the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem, ye sold to the sons of Greece,—that they might be far removed from their own boundary.

Amos 8:4Hear this, ye who pant after the needy, and to make an end of the oppressed 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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