Amos 6:7
So you will be at the head of those led away into exile; the feasting and lazing around will be over.
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1 Kings 20:16They left at noon while Ben-hadad and the thirty-two kings with him were busy getting drunk in their tents.
Esther 5:12“Added to all that,” Haman went on, “I was the only other person Queen Esther invited to come to a dinner she had prepared for the king. I'm also invited by her to eat together with the king tomorrow.”
Esther 7:8When the king came back in from the palace garden to the dining room, Haman had thrown himself on the couch where Queen Esther was. The king shouted out, “Is he even going to rape the queen here in the palace, right in front of me?” As soon as the king said this, the servants covered Haman's face.
Isaiah 24:8The happy sound of tambourines is over; the noise of the party-goers has stopped; the delightful harp music has finished.
Amos 4:3You will leave through breaches in the city walls, thrown out in the direction of Mount Hermon.
Amos 5:27So I will send you into exile in a land beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of power.
Matthew Henry on Amos 6:2-8
The Danger of False Security. ( b. c. 790.) 1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! 2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? 3 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; 4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch… Read the whole commentary →