Amos 6:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 6

⁷Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.

Amos 6:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 7:11
For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
Amos 5:5
But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
1 Kings 20:16-20
And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him. …
Daniel 5:4-6
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. …
Amos 5:27
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.

Topics

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures Banquet Care Carnal Mindedness Confidence Convocation Covetousness Dinner

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

The first words of the chapter are the contents of these verses; but they sound very strangely, and contrary to the sentiments of a vain world: Woe to those that are at ease! We are ready to say, Happy are those that are at ease, that neither feel any trouble nor fear any, that lie soft and warm, and lay nothing to heart; and wise we think are those that do so, that bathe themselves in the delight…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. Therefore ... shall they go captive with the first--As they were first among the people in rank (Am 6:1), and anointed themselves “with the chief ointments” (Am 6:6), so shall they be among the foremost in going into captivity. banquet--literally, the “merry-making shout of revellers”; from an Arabic root, “to cry out.” In the Hebrew, marzeach; here, there is an allusion to mizraqu, “bowls” (Am…