Amos 2:6 Cross References

Amos 2:6

6: This is what the LORD says: "The people of Israel have sinned again and again, and I will not forget it. I will not let them go unpunished any longer! They have perverted justice by selling honest people for silver and poor people for a pair of sandals.

Joel 3:3

  1. They cast lots to decide which of my people would be their slaves. They traded young boys for prostitutes and little girls for enough wine to get drunk.

Amos 5:11

  1. You trample the poor and steal what little they have through taxes and unfair rent. Therefore, you will never live in the beautiful stone houses you are building. You will never drink wine from the lush vineyards you are planting.
  2. For I know the vast number of your sins and rebellions. You oppress good people by taking bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.

Micah 3:2

  1. but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
  2. You eat my people's flesh, cut away their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.

Micah 6:10

  1. Will there be no end of your getting rich by cheating? The homes of the wicked are filled with treasures gained by dishonestly measuring out grain in short measures.
  2. And how can I tolerate all your merchants who use dishonest scales and weights?
  3. The rich among you have become wealthy through extortion and violence. Your citizens are so used to lying that their tongues can no longer tell the truth.
  4. "Therefore, I will wound you! I will bring you to ruin for all your sins.
  5. You will eat but never have enough. Your hunger pangs and emptiness will still remain. And though you try to save your money, it will come to nothing in the end. You will save a little, but I will give it to those who conquer you.

Joel 3:6

  1. You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, who took them far from their homeland.

Ezekiel 23:5

  1. "Then Oholah lusted after other lovers instead of me, and she gave her love to the Assyrians, her neighbors.
  2. They were all attractive young men, captains and commanders dressed in handsome blue, dashing about on their horses.
  3. And so she prostituted herself with the most desirable men of Assyria, worshiping their idols and defiling herself.
  4. For when she left Egypt, she did not leave her spirit of prostitution behind. She was still as lewd as in her youth, when the Egyptians satisfied their lusts with her and robbed her of her virginity.
  5. And so I handed her over to her Assyrian lovers, whom she desired so much.

Isaiah 29:21

  1. Those who make the innocent guilty by their false testimony will disappear. And those who use trickery to pervert justice and tell lies to tear down the innocent will be no more.

Hosea 13:2

  1. Now they keep on sinning by making silver idols to worship--images shaped skillfully with human hands. "Sacrifice to these," they cry, "and kiss the calf idols!"
  2. Therefore, they will disappear like the morning mist, like dew in the morning sun, like chaff blown by the wind, like smoke from a chimney.

Hosea 4:1

  1. Hear the word of the LORD, O people of Israel! The LORD has filed a lawsuit against you, saying: "There is no faithfulness, no kindness, no knowledge of God in your land.
  2. You curse and lie and kill and steal and commit adultery. There is violence everywhere, with one murder after another.

Amos 8:4

  1. Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trample the needy!
  2. You can't wait for the Sabbath day to be over and the religious festivals to end so you can get back to cheating the helpless. You measure out your grain in false measures and weigh it out on dishonest scales.
  3. And you mix the wheat you sell with chaff swept from the floor! Then you enslave poor people for a debt of one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.

Hosea 4:11

  1. "Alcohol and prostitution have robbed my people of their brains.
  2. They are asking a piece of wood to tell them what to do! They think a stick can tell them the future! Longing after idols has made them foolish. They have played the prostitute, serving other gods and deserting their God.
  3. They offer sacrifices to idols on the tops of mountains. They go up into the hills to burn incense in the pleasant shade of oaks, poplars, and other trees. "That is why your daughters turn to prostitution, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
  4. Why should I punish them? For you men are doing the same thing, sinning with whores and shrine prostitutes. O foolish people! You will be destroyed, for you refuse to understand.

2 Kings 17:7

  1. This disaster came upon the nation of Israel because the people worshiped other gods, sinning against the LORD their God, who had brought them safely out of their slavery in Egypt.
  2. They had imitated the practices of the pagan nations the LORD had driven from the land before them, as well as the practices the kings of Israel had introduced.
  3. The people of Israel had also secretly done many things that were not pleasing to the LORD their God. They built pagan shrines for themselves in all their towns, from the smallest outpost to the largest walled city.
  4. They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles at the top of every hill and under every green tree.
  5. They burned incense at the shrines, just like the nations the LORD had driven from the land ahead of them. So the people of Israel had done many evil things, arousing the LORD's anger.

Isaiah 5:22

  1. Destruction is certain for those who are heroes when it comes to drinking, who boast about all the liquor they can hold.
  2. They take bribes to pervert justice. They let the wicked go free while punishing the innocent.

Amos 6:3

  1. You push away every thought of coming disaster, but your actions only bring the day of judgment closer.
  2. How terrible it will be for you who sprawl on ivory beds surrounded with luxury, eating the meat of tender lambs and choice calves.
  3. You sing idle songs to the sound of the harp, and you fancy yourselves to be great musicians, as King David was.
  4. You drink wine by the bowlful, and you perfume yourselves with exotic fragrances, caring nothing at all that your nation is going to ruin.
  5. Therefore, you will be the first to be led away as captives. Suddenly, all your revelry will end.

2 Kings 18:12

  1. For they had refused to listen to the LORD their God. Instead, they had violated his covenant--all the laws the LORD had given through his servant Moses.

Hosea 8:4

  1. The people have appointed kings and princes, but not with my consent. By making idols for themselves from their silver and gold, they have brought about their own destruction.
  2. "O Samaria, I reject this calf--this idol you have made. My fury burns against you. How long will you be incapable of innocence?
  3. This calf you worship was crafted by your own hands! It is not God! Therefore, it must be smashed to bits.

Hosea 7:7

  1. They kill their kings one after another, and no one cries out to me for help.
  2. "My people of Israel mingle with godless foreigners, picking up their evil ways. Now they have become as worthless as a half-baked cake!
  3. Worshiping foreign gods has sapped their strength, but they don't even know it. Israel is like an old man with graying hair, unaware of how weak and old he has become.
  4. His arrogance testifies against him, yet he doesn't return to the LORD his God or even try to find him.
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