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Amos 6:7-9
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Amos 6:7-9
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7 Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile,[a]
and the religious banquets[b] where they sprawl on couches[c] will end.
8 The Sovereign Lord confirms this oath by his very own life.[d]
The Lord God of Heaven’s Armies is speaking:
“I despise Jacob’s arrogance;
I hate their[e] fortresses.
I will hand over to their enemies[f] the city of Samaria[g] and everything in it.”
9 If ten men are left in one house, they too will die.
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- Amos 6:7 tn Heb “they will go into exile at the head of the exiles.”
- Amos 6:7 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.
- Amos 6:7 tn Heb “of the sprawled out.” See v. 4.
- Amos 6:8 tn Heb “swears by his life”; or “swears by himself.”
- Amos 6:8 tn Heb “his,” referring to Jacob, which stands here for the nation of Israel.
- Amos 6:8 tn The words “to their enemies” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
- Amos 6:8 tn Heb “the city”; this probably refers to the city of Samaria (cf. 6:1), which in turn, by metonymy, represents the entire northern kingdom.
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