Go you unto Calneh, and see: and from thence go you to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be [a]they better than these kingdoms? or the border of their land greater than your border,

Ye that put far away the [b]evil day, and approach to the seat of iniquity?

They lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their beds, and eat the lambs of the flock, and the calves out of the stall.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:2 If God have destroyed these excellent cities in three divers kingdoms, as in Babylon, Syria, and of the Philistines, and hath brought their wide borders into a greater straightness than yours yet are, think you to be better, or to escape?
  2. Amos 6:3 Ye that continue still in your wickedness, and think that God’s plagues are not at hand, but give yourselves to all idleness, wantonness, and riot.

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