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Amos 8:6 Cross-References
Explore 7 cross-references for Amos 8:6 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Amos chapter 8 verse 6 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?”
Amos 8:6 (KJV)
Commentary on Amos 8:6
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes—This verse exposes debt slavery as economic strategy. The Hebrew buy (לִקְנוֹת, liqnot) means purchase as property, and for silver (בְּכֶסֶף, bekhesef) indicates monetary debt as the mechanism. When poor Israelites couldn't repay loans (often at usurious rates), creditors enslaved them—violating Deuteronomy 15:1-18's debt forgiveness provisions and Leviticus 25:39-43's prohibition against treating fellow Israelites as slaves.The phrase for a pair of shoes (בַּעֲבוּר נַעֲלַיִם, ba'avur na'alayim) appears in Amos 2:6, emphasi...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Amos 8:6
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“that you may remove them far from their border.”
“you who desire to swallow up the needy”
“And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.”
“We after our ability have redeemed our brothers the Jews”
“and have given a boy for a prostitute”