 | George Bishop - New England - 1703 - 598 pages
...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...after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek : and they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - Theology - 1803 - 680 pages
...into their history, we find the complaint but too just. Could it be said they returned to God when they Sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; •when they had trodden down the head of the poor in the dust of the earth; when they added whoredom,... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1806 - 416 pages
...; 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 ; they perverted justice for the smallest present ; e-ven a 7 pair of shoes or sandals would draw them... | |
 | Samuel Burder - Bible - 1807 - 426 pages
...murmuring is heard all over the place, and adds no small pleasure to it." No. 1140.— AMOS ii. 6. They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for A pair of shoes. MAILLET, (Lett. xp 86.) amongst othe.r articles which are carried before a bride on the day of marriage,... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...Kirioth ; and Moab shall die in much horror, in the midst of the tumults and shrieks of war. II. 6 Because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes. For that, upon every base and worthless bribe, they have yielded so far to he corrupted, as to sell... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 498 pages
...LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, 1 will not turn away the punishment thereof: because they sold the righteous for silver, and the...after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn asiJe the way of the meek : Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, 0 children... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...as is not so much Js named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. Amos ii. 7, That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek j «nd a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - Christian life - 1810 - 342 pages
...the bag of deceitful weights ;* and leads them into ways of oppression and cruelty, such as ' selling the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes,' &c. Amos ii. 6. I know not any sin in the world, but what this sin of self-seeking will set men upon,... | |
 | Samuel Burder - Bible - 1812 - 428 pages
...murmuring is heard all over the place, and adds no small pleasure to. it." No. 1140.— AMOS ii. 6. They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes. . xp 86.) amongst other articles which are carried before a bride on the day of marriage, mentions... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, 1 will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes ; 7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek... | |
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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... 
