Amós 6:5-6 NVT

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 6:4-7

The sin of dissolute life. A herdsman and gatherer of wild figs like Amos, brought into contact with the nobility and the courtiers of a wealthy and luxurious city like Samaria, was likely enough to be shocked and scandalized. The judgments he formed were naturally severe, but they were not unjust or passionate. His language remains a merited and everlasting rebuke to those in high station who live for their own gratification and indulgence. I. A LUXURIOUS AND DISSOLUTE LIFE ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 6:4-7

Carnal indulgence. "That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall," etc. Here is a sketch of the way in which these leading men of the chief nations luxuriated in carnal pleasures and sensual indulgences. Observe two things. I. THE MORAL TORPOR OF CARNAL INDULGENCE . Observe two things. 1 . These people wrought entirely for the senses. See how they slept! They... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 6:5

That chant. The word parat ( ἅπαξ λεγόμενον ) means rather "to prattle," "to sing idle songs," as the Revised Version translates it. The reading of the Septuagint varies between ἐπικρατοῦντες . "excelling," and ἐπικροτοῦντες , the latter of which words might mean "applauding." Viol (see note on Amos 5:23 ). Invent to themselves instruments of music, like David. As David devised stringed instruments and modes of singing to do honour to God and for the service of his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 6:6

Wine in bowls ( misraqim ); sacrificial bowls ; used in libations of wine and in the sprinkling of blood (comp. Exodus 38:3 ; Numbers 7:13 , etc.; 1 Chronicles 28:17 ; 2 Chronicles 4:8 , 2 Chronicles 4:22 ; Zechariah 9:15 ; Zechariah 14:20 ). These vessels the luxurious and sacrilegious princes employed in their feasts, proving thus their impiety and their excess (comp. Daniel 5:2 ). Septuagint, οἱ πίνοντες τὸν διυλισμένον οἶνον , "who drink strained wine." The... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 6:6

The dry eye of the destroyer. "But they are not grieved for the hurt of Joseph." Of the many aspects of Israel's sin, this is among the most repulsive. It is bad enough to sin against our brother, and by our wrong doing to blight his life; but it makes the crime hideous to look, uncaring and callous, on the desolation we ourselves have wrought. I. ONE MAN 'S SUFFERING IS A FIT OCCASION OF ANOTHER MAN 'S SORROW . Men are brothers ( Acts 17:26 ), and owe a mutual... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 6:5

That chant to the voice of the lyre - Accompanying “the voice of the lyre” with the human voice; giving vocal expression and utterance to what the instrumental music spoke without words. The word, which Amos alone uses in this one place, describes probably a hurried flow of unmeaning, unconsidered words, in which the rhythm of words and music was everything, the sense, nothing; much like most glees.The English margin “quaver” has also some foundation in the root, but does not suit the idiom so... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 6:6

That drink wine in bowls - (Literally, as the English margin, “drink in bowls,” literally, “sprinkling vessels, of wine”). The word is elsewhere used only of the “bowls,” out of which the blood of the sacrifice was sprinkled. Probably Amos was referring to the first offering of the Princes in the wilderness, with whom he had already tacitly contrasted these Princes . They had shown zeal for God in offering the massive bowls for the service of the tabernacle: the like zeal had these princes for... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 6:3-6

Amos 6:3-6. Ye that put far away the evil day Ye who persuade yourselves that God’s judgments will not overtake you so soon as the predictions of the prophet import. And cause the seat of violence to come near Who take every opportunity of perverting justice by pronouncing unrighteous decrees, and of turning the seat of justice into the seat of oppression. Or, this latter clause may be interpreted of the Israelites’ bringing the Assyrians, who were to be their destroyers, upon them, by... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 6:1-14

Pride and its punishment (6:1-14)Israel’s leaders deceive themselves that the nation is secure. They live prosperously and see no possibility of any immediate crisis. Amos reminds them that other nations were stronger than Israel and other cities more prosperous than Samaria, but they still fell to enemy armies (6:1-3). These upper class people live in luxury, without any concern for the injustice that is ruining the nation. When Israel is conquered, they will be in the first group taken into... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 6:5

chant = break out [in song]. Hebrew. parat. Occurs only here. instruments of music = instruments of song like David = as David did read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 6:4-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 6:4-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 6:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 6:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 6:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 6:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 6:6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 6:3-6

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 6:1-14

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 6:5

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