Amos 8:6 BSB — MannaFest

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9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לִקְנ֤וֹת	lik.Not	to buy	H7069 →
בַּכֶּ֙סֶף֙	ba.Ke.sef	for <the> silver	H3701 →
דַּלִּ֔ים	da.Lim	poor [people]	H1800 →
וְאֶבְי֖וֹן	ve.'ev.Yon	and [the] needy	H34 →
בַּעֲב֣וּר	ba.'a.Vur	forsake of	H5668 →
נַעֲלָ֑יִם	na.'a.La.yim	a pair of sandals	H5275 →
וּמַפַּ֥ל	u.ma.Pal	and refuse of	H4651 →
בַּ֖ר	bar	grain	H1250 →
נַשְׁבִּֽיר׃	nash.Bir	we will sell grain	H7666 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
leads to
- Proverbs 30:14
  there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
- Psalms 14:4
  Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
- Amos 5:11
  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…
- Isaiah 32:6–7
  For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.
Through
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.
leads to
- Joel 3:3
  They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
Through
Joel 3:3
They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
leads to
- Nahum 3:10
  Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in…
- 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.
- Obadiah 1:11
  On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Amos 2:6This 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 3:9Proclaim to the citadels of Ashdod and to the citadels of Egypt: “Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest in the city and the acts of oppression in her midst.”Joel 3:3They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,Nehemiah 5:8and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.Nehemiah 5:1–5About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.Leviticus 25:39–42If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.Joel 3:6You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.Isaiah 32:6For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.Jeremiah 34:14Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.Proverbs 22:7The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.Revelation 18:13of cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; of wine, olive oil, fine flour, and wheat; of cattle, sheep, horses, and chariots; of slaves and souls of men.

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