Amos 8:6
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Updated King James Version
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In Context
7The LORD has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Cross References
Nehemiah 5:1And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
Ezekiel 22:12In you have they taken gifts to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbours by extortion, and have forgotten me, says the Lord GOD.
Joel 3:6The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have all of you sold unto the Grecians, that all of you might remove them far from their border.
Amos 8:4Hear this, O all of you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
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 →