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Amos 6:7
New English Translation
Amos 6:7
New English Translation
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.
Footnotes
- 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.
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