Cross references

Amos 2:6

This is what the LORD says:

“For three transgressions of Israel, even four,

I will not revoke My judgment,

because they sell the righteous for silver

and the needy for a pair of sandals.

Amos 2:6 BSB

Amos 2:6 has 17 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Joel 3:3 (8 votes) and Amos 5:11–12 (3 votes). 23 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Exodus 20 to Revelation 18.

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Which verses does Amos 2:6 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Joel 3:38 votes

    They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

  2. Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted. For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

  3. You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones. You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”

  4. All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel. …

  5. This happened because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD their God, but violated His covenant—all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded—and would neither listen nor obey.

  6. Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink, who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

  7. those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.

  8. Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds. …

  9. Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land! Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

  10. to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding. My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God. …

  11. Joel 3:62 votes

Which verses point to Amos 2:6?

The 10 strongest of 23.