EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Amos 6:7
7You will be the first people that your enemies will take away as prisoners. You will no longer enjoy your feasts and wild parties.
Amos 6:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
- New International Version (NIV)Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile; your feasting and lounging will end.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore they shall now be the first of those who go into exile, and the revelry of those who stretch themselves out shall pass away."
- New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore they shall now go captive as the first of the captives, And those who recline at banquets shall be removed.
Context of Amos 6:7
5Like King David, you play music on your harps and you sing new songs. 6You drink lots of wine. You put beautiful oils on your bodies. But you are not sad that Joseph's descendants are destroying themselves as a nation. You will be the first people that your enemies will take away as prisoners. You will no longer enjoy your feasts and wild parties. 8The Lord God Almighty has promised that this will surely happen. He has spoken this strong message: ‘The Israelites think that they are very strong. But I have turned against them. I hate their strong buildings. So I will give their great city and everything in it to their enemies.’ 9At that time, if ten people are safe together in one house, they will still all die.
Read all of Amos 6Amos 6:7 word by word
לָכֵ֛ן עַתָּ֥ה יִגְל֖וּ בְּרֹ֣אשׁ גֹּלִ֑ים וְסָ֖ר מִרְזַ֥ח סְרוּחִֽים׃ פRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Amos 6:7
- Amos 5:5Do not go to Bethel, Gilgal, or Beersheba. Do not try to find me there, because I am not there. I will send enemies to destroy those places. They will take the people away as slaves.’
- Amos 7:11Amos is saying, “Our enemies will kill King Jeroboam. They will take all the people to a foreign country as prisoners.” ’
- Deuteronomy 28:41You will give birth to sons and daughters, but you will lose them. Enemies will take them away as prisoners.
- Luke 21:24At that time, enemies will fight God's people and kill many of them in war. They will take some of them away as prisoners to live in all the other countries. They will not be free to return home. People that are not Jews will destroy Jerusalem. They will rule here until it is time for them to stop.’
- 1 Kings 20:16The soldiers marched out of Samaria at noon. Ben-Hadad and the 32 other kings were still drinking in their tents. They were drunk.
- Esther 5:8If the king is pleased with me, and if you agree, please do what I ask. I would like the king and Haman to come again tomorrow. Come to another meal that I will prepare for you. Then I will tell you what I want, as you have asked me to do.’
- Esther 7:1King Xerxes and Haman went to the meal that Queen Esther had prepared.
- Isaiah 21:4It confuses my mind. I shake with fear. I wanted a quiet evening, but instead there is terror.
- Daniel 5:4While they drank the wine, they praised their gods. Their gods were idols that were made from gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.
- Nahum 1:10He will kill them. And then it will be like when thorn bushes have caught people. Or it will be like when they have drunk too much alcohol. It will be like when someone burns dry straw.
Commentaries on Amos 6:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7With the first that go captive - The house of Israel shall be carried into captivity before the house of Judah.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Therefore now (that is, shortly) shall they go captive with the first (at the head) of those who go captive - They had sought eminence; they should have it. Jerome: “Ye who are first in riches, shall, the first, endure the yoke of captivity, as it is in Ezekiel, begin from My sanctuary‘ Ezekiel 9:6, that is, from the destruction of the Temple which is holy. For mighty men shall be mightily tormented‘ (Wisdom Ezekiel 6:6); and, to whom men have committed…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-14The pronouncements of sorrow in this section develop two main themes: Israel’s apostasy (turning away from God) would make the day of the Lord a day of judgment, not salvation; and Judah’s spiritual complacency (feeling satisfied and unconcerned about faithfulness to God) would also bring judgment.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. Therefore ... shall they go captive with the first--As they were first among the people in rank (Am 6:1), and anointed themselves "with the chief ointments" (Am 6:6), so shall they be among the foremost in going into captivity. banquet--literally, the "merry-making shout of revellers"; from an Arabic root, "to cry out." In the Hebrew, marzeach; here, there is an allusion to mizraqu, "bowls" (Am 6:6). them that stretched themselves--on luxurious couches…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Amos 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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