Amos 6:7

Your feasting and lounging on soft couches will soon end, and you will be among the first ones to be forced by your enemies to go ◄into exile/to another country►.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.

In Context

6You drink entire bowlfuls of wine and you put expensive oils/perfumes on your bodies, but you do not grieve about your country of Israel [MTY], which is about to be destroyed.

8Yahweh the Lord has solemnly declared this: “I hate the people of Israel because they are very proud; I detest their fortresses. I will enable their enemies to capture their capital city and everything in it.”

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Cross References

1 Kings 20:16They started to attack at noon, while Ben-Hadad and the other rulers were getting drunk in their temporary shelters.

Esther 5:12Then Haman added, “And that is not all! Queen Esther invited just two of us, the king and me, to a banquet she prepared for us today. And she is inviting only the two of us to another banquet that she will prepare tomorrow!”

Esther 7:8He threw himself down on the couch where Esther was reclining. But at that moment the king returned from the garden to the room where they had been eating. He saw Haman, and assumed he was preparing to rape Esther. He exclaimed, “Are you going to rape the queen while she is here with me in my own palace?” As soon as the king said that, some officials covered Haman’s head, as they did to people who were about to be hanged.

Isaiah 24:8People will no longer play cheerful songs with tambourines, people will no longer play joyfully on their harps, and people will no longer shout noisily during their celebrations.

Amos 4:3Your enemies will drag you out through breaks/holes in your city walls, and they will throw you outside the city. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!

Amos 5:27Therefore, now I will force you to go to a country that is far beyond Damascus! That will surely happen because I, the Commander of the armies of angels, have said it!”

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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