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Amos 2:6 (KJV)

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

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2 Kings 17:7 - For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
2 Kings 18:12 - Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, [and] all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear [them], nor do [them].
Isaiah 5:22 - Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Isaiah 10:2 - To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!
Isaiah 29:21 - That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
Ezekiel 23:5 - And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbours,
Hosea 4:1 - Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because [there is] no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Hosea 4:11 - Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Hosea 7:7 - They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: [there is] none among them that calleth unto me.
Hosea 8:4 - They have set up kings, but not by 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.
Hosea 13:2 - And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, [and] idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
Joel 3:3 - And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
Joel 3:6 - The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
Amos 5:11 - Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Amos 6:3 - Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
Amos 8:4 - Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
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?
Micah 3:2 - Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Micah 6:10 - Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?
Zechariah 11:5 - Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed [be] the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.

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