Amos 8:6

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Amos 8:4, Amos 2:6, Leviticus 25:39-42, Nehemiah 5:1-5, Nehemiah 5:8, Joel 3:3, Joel 3:6

Reciprocal: Leviticus 19:35 - in meteyard Proverbs 11:1 - A false balance is Proverbs 22:7 - rich Isaiah 32:6 - empty Jeremiah 34:14 - At the Hosea 12:7 - the balances Amos 3:9 - oppressed Micah 6:10 - and 1 Thessalonians 4:6 - go Revelation 18:13 - slaves

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That we may buy the poor for silver,.... Thus making them pay dear for their provisions, and using them in this fraudulent manner, by which they would not be able to support themselves and their families; they might purchase them and theirs for slaves, at so small a price as a piece of silver, or a single shekel, worth about half a crown; and this was their end and design in using them after this manner; see

Leviticus 25:39;

and the needy for a pair of shoes; Leviticus 25:39- :;

[yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat; not only did they sell the poor grain and wheat at a dear rate, and in scanty measure, but the worst of it, and such as was not fit to make bread of, only to be given to the cattle; and, by reducing the poor to extreme poverty, they obliged them to take that of them at their own price. It may be rendered, "the fall of wheat" c; that which fell under the sieve, when the wheat was sifted, as Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Ben Melech, observe.

c מפל בר "labile frumenti", Montanus; "decidum frumenti", Cocceius; "deciduum triciti", Drusius, Mercerus, Stockius, p. 690.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That we may buy - Or, indignantly, “To buy the poor!” literally, “the afflicted,” those in “low” estate. First, by dishonesty and oppression they gained their lands and goods. Then the poor were obliged to sell themselves. The slight price, for which a man was sold, showed the more contempt for “the image of God.” Before, he said, “the needy” were “sold for a pair of sandals” Amos 2:6; here, that they were bought for them. It seems then the more likely that such was a real price for man.

And sell the refuse - Literally, the “falling of wheat,” that is, what fell through the sieve, either the bran, or the thin, unfilled, grains which had no meal in them. This they mixed up largely with the meal, making a gain of that which they had once sifted out as worthless; or else, in a time of dearth, they sold to people what was the food of animals, and made a profit on it. Infancy and inexperience of cupidity, which adulterated its bread only with bran, or sold to the poor only what, although unnourishing, was wholesome! But then, with the multiplied hard-dealing, what manifoldness of the woe!

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 8:6. That we may buy the poor for silver — Buying their services for such a time, with just money enough to clear them from other creditors.

And the needy for a pair of shoes — See Amos 2:6.

And sell the refuse of the wheat! — Selling bad wheat and damaged flour to poor people as good, knowing that such cannot afford to prosecute them.