Amos 6:7

6:7 Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile, 1 

and the religious banquets 2  where they sprawl on couches 3  will end.

Amos 7:11

7:11 As a matter of fact, 4  Amos is saying this: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will certainly be carried into exile 5  away from its land.’”

1 tn Heb “they will go into exile at the head of the exiles.”

2 sn Religious banquets. This refers to the מַרְזֵחַ (marzeakh), a type of pagan religious banquet popular among the upper class of Israel at this time and apparently associated with mourning. See P. King, Amos, Hosea, Micah, 137-61; J. L. McLaughlin, The “Marzeah” in the Prophetic Literature (VTSup). Scholars debate whether at this banquet the dead were simply remembered or actually venerated in a formal, cultic sense.

3 tn Heb “of the sprawled out.” See v. 4.

4 tn Or “for.”

5 tn See the note on the word “exile” in 5:5.