Amos 6:5

who excel in the sound of musical instruments; they have regarded them as abiding, not as fleeting pleasures;

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

In Context

4who sleep upon beds of ivory, and live delicately on their couches, and eat kids out of the flocks, and sucking calves out of the midst of the stalls;

6who drink strained wine, and anoint themselves with the best ointment: and have suffered nothing on occasion of the calamity of Joseph.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:27Whereas if thou hadst told me, I would have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, and timbrels, and harp.

1 Chronicles 23:5and four thousand doorkeepers, and four thousand to praise the Lord with instruments which he made to praise the Lord.

Job 21:11And they remain as an unfailing flock, 1 And their children play before them, 1 Taking up the psaltery and harp; 1

Isaiah 5:12For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his hands.

Amos 8:3And the ceilings of the temple shall howl in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many a fallen one in every place; I will bring silence upon them.

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 →

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