Amos 2:6-9
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Thus says the Lord:
n "For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because r they sell the righteous for s silver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals -
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those who trample the head of the poor t into the dust of the earth
and u turn aside the way of the afflicted;
v a man and his father go in to the same girl,
so that my holy name is profaned;
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they lay themselves down beside every altar
on garments w taken in pledge,
and in the house of their God they drink
the wine of those who have been fined.
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"Yet x it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,
y whose height was like the height of the cedars
and who was as strong as the oaks;
z I destroyed his fruit above
and his roots beneath.
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Cross References
Amos 2:4
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:39
If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:
2 Kings 4:1
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.
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Cross References
Amos 8:6
That we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?
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Cross References
Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
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Cross References
Amos 5:12
For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins - you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.
Job 24:4
They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Isaiah 10:2
To turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.
Ezekiel 22:11
One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter.
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Cross References
Exodus 22:26
If ever you take your neighbor's cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 2:31
And the Lord said to me, 'Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.
Joshua 24:8
Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you.
Numbers 21:21 - 25
Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying.
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Cross References
Numbers 13:32 - 33
So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height.
Isaiah 10:33
Behold, the Lord God of hosts will lop the boughs with terrifying power; the great in height will be hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low.
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Cross References
Job 18:16
His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
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