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Amo 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;

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Thus saith		Amos, says Abp. Newcome, first prophesies against the Syrians, Philistines, Tyrians, Edomites, Ammonites, and Moabites, who dwelt in the neighbourhood of the twelve tribes, and had occasionally become their enemies and persecutors. Having thus taught his countrymen that the providence of God extended to other nations, he briefly mentions the idolatrous practices and consequent destruction of Judah, and then passes on to his proper subject, which was to exhort and reprove the kingdom of Israel, and to denounce against it the Divine judgments.
For three		Amo 6:3-7; 2Ki 17:7-18; 2Ki 18:12; Eze 23:5-9; Hsa 4:1,2,11-14; Hsa 7:7-10; Hsa 8:4-6; Hsa 13:2,3; Mic 6:10-16
because		Amo 5:11,12; Amo 8:4-6; Isa 5:22,23; Isa 29:21; Joe 3:3,6; Mic 3:2,3

Correlating Passages

For three

	Amo 6:3	Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
	Amo 6:4	That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
	Amo 6:5	That chant to the sound of the viol, [and] invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
	Amo 6:6	That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
	Amo 6:7	Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
	2Ki 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,
	2Ki 17:8	And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
	2Ki 17:9	And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
	2Ki 17:10	And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
	2Ki 17:11	And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as [did] the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
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	2Ki 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].
	Eze 23:5	And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbours,
	Eze 23:6	[Which were] clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
	Eze 23:7	Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them [that were] the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
	Eze 23:8	Neither left she her whoredoms [brought] from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
	Eze 23:9	Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
	Hsa 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.
	Hsa 4:2	By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
	Hsa 4:11	Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
	Hsa 4:12	My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
	Hsa 4:13	They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof [is] good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
	Hsa 4:14	I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people [that] doth not understand shall fall.
	Hsa 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.
	Hsa 7:8	Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
	Hsa 7:9	Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
	Hsa 7:10	And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
	Hsa 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.
	Hsa 8:5	Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long [will it be] ere they attain to innocency?
	Hsa 8:6	For from Israel [was] it also: the workman made it; therefore it [is] not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
	Hsa 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.
	Hsa 13:3	Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff [that] is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
	Mic 6:10	Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?
	Mic 6:11	Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
	Mic 6:12	For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.
	Mic 6:13	Therefore also will I make [thee] sick in smiting thee, in making [thee] desolate because of thy sins.
	Mic 6:14	Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down [shall be] in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and [that] which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.
	Mic 6:15	Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.
	Mic 6:16	For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

because

	Amo 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.
	Amo 5:12	For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right].
	Amo 8:4	Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
	Amo 8:5	Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
	Amo 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?
	Isa 5:22	Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
	Isa 5:23	Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
	Isa 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.
	Joe 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.
	Joe 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.
	Mic 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;
	Mic 3:3	Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

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Scott, Thomas. "Amos 2:6," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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