Amos 6:7
7 Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile, ▼
▼tn Heb “they will go into exile at the head of the exiles.”
and the religious banquets ▼
▼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.
where they sprawl on couches ▼ will end.
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