Bible Cross References
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Amos 8:4
Listen to this, you that trample on the needy and try to destroy the poor of the country.
Amos 2:6
The LORD says, "The people of Israel have sinned again and again, and for this I will certainly punish them. They sell into slavery honest people who cannot pay their debts, the poor who cannot repay even the price of a pair of sandals.
Leviticus 25:39-42
39
If any Israelites living near you become so poor that they sell themselves to you as a slave, you shall not make them do the work of a slave.
40
They shall stay with you as hired workers and serve you until the next Year of Restoration.
41
At that time they and their children shall leave you and return to their family and to the property of their ancestors.
42
The people of Israel are the LORD's slaves, and he brought them out of Egypt; they must not be sold into slavery.
Nehemiah 5:1-5
1
Some time later many of the people, both men and women, began to complain against the other Jews.
2
Some said, "We have large families, we need grain to keep us alive."
3
Others said, "We have had to mortgage our fields and vineyards and houses to get enough grain to keep us from starving."
4
Still others said, "We had to borrow money to pay the royal tax on our fields and vineyards.
5
We are of the same race as the other Jews. Aren't our children just as good as theirs? But we have to make slaves of our children. Some of our daughters have already been sold as slaves. We are helpless because our fields and vineyards have been taken away from us."
Nehemiah 5:8-5
Joel 3:3
They threw dice to decide who would get the captives. They sold boys and girls into slavery to pay for prostitutes and wine.
Joel 3:6
You have taken the people of Judah and Jerusalem far from their own country and sold them to the Greeks.