Amos 6:7
Context| NETBible | 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. |
| XREF | De 28:41; 1Ki 20:16-20; Es 5:8,12-14; Es 7:1,2,8-10; Isa 21:4; Da 5:4-6; Am 5:5,27; Am 7:11; Na 1:10; Lu 21:24 |
| NET © Notes |
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. |
