 | George Bourne - Enslaved persons - 1834 - 266 pages
...may drink." This is the constant practice among slaveholders. Amos 2; 6—8. "Thus saith the Lord; they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; that pant after the dust of the earth upon the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek... | |
 | Joseph Roberts - 1835 - 656 pages
...margin is applied to that condition. " In the tenth moon the child fell from the mountain." II. 6. — " They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes." (Ps. Ix. 8. " Over Edom will I cast out my shoe.") (Chap. viii. 6.) The shoes or rather SANDALS have... | |
 | Joseph Roberts - Bible - 1835 - 652 pages
...margin is applied to that condition. " In the tenth moon the child fell from the mountain." II. 6. — " They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes." (Ps. Ix. 8. " Over Edom will I cast out my shoe.") (Chap. viii. 6.) The shoes or rather SANDALS have... | |
 | Bible - 1838 - 900 pages
...will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. 6 f Thus saith the LORT> ; saith ; 7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek... | |
 | Jeremiah L. Lesslie - Universalism - 1836 - 292 pages
...especially those who oppress their fellow men, and, in the emphatic language of scripture metaphor, sell the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes. These afford incontrovertible evidence that the Almighty is an unjust and partial being, if there is... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 630 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 be corrupted, as to sell... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Brownists - 1837 - 624 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 be corrupted, as to sell... | |
 | 1841 - 538 pages
...transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes." " Forasmuch, therefore, as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat ;... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1839 - 154 pages
...place whither ye have sold them, and will return vour recompense upon your own head. Joel iii, 6. 11. Thus saith the LORD, for three transgressions of Israel,...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes ; and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name. Amos ii, 6. 12.... | |
 | James Duncan - Slavery - 1840 - 150 pages
...balance by deceit, that ye may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes." Chap, ii, 6 : " Thus saith the Lord, for three transgressions...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes." Eccl. iv. 1. "So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and behold... | |
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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... 
