Amos 6:6 - Exposition

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 chief ointments. Such as were used in Divine service ( Exodus 30:23 , etc.), and nowhere else. If they had felt as they ought to feel in this time of rebuke and sorrow, they would, like mourners, have refrained from anointing themselves ( Ruth 3:3 ; 2 Samuel 14:2 ); but, on the contrary, they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. The coming ruin of the ten tribes affects them not; in their selfish voluptuousness they have no sympathy with calamity and suffering, and shut their eyes to coming evil. "The affliction of Joseph" is probably a proverbial expression derived from the narratives in Genesis 37:25 , etc; and Genesis 40:14 , Genesis 40:23 (comp. Genesis 42:21 ).