Amos 2:6
"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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- 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."
Read in chapter → - 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;"
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - Amos 8:4
"Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,"
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - 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,"
Read in chapter → - Amos 6:3
"Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;"
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