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Text -- Amos 6:6-14 (NET)

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6:6 They drink wine from sacrificial bowls, and pour the very best oils on themselves. Yet they are not concerned over the ruin of Joseph. 6:7 Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile, and the religious banquets where they sprawl on couches will end. 6:8 The sovereign Lord confirms this oath by his very own life. The Lord, the God who commands armies, is speaking: “I despise Jacob’s arrogance; I hate their fortresses. I will hand over to their enemies the city of Samaria and everything in it.” 6:9 If ten men are left in one house, they too will die. 6:10 When their close relatives, the ones who will burn the corpses, pick up their bodies to remove the bones from the house, they will say to anyone who is in the inner rooms of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” He will respond, “Be quiet! Don’t invoke the Lord’s name!” 6:11 Indeed, look! The Lord is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces. 6:12 Can horses run on rocky cliffs? Can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into a poisonous plant, and the fruit of righteous actions into a bitter plant. 6:13 You are happy because you conquered Lo-Debar. You say, “Did we not conquer Karnaim by our own power?” 6:14 “Look! I am about to bring a nation against you, family of Israel.” The Lord, the God who commands armies, is speaking. “They will oppress you all the way from Lebo-Hamath to the Stream of the Arabah.”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Arabah a town of Judea west of Jerusalem on the border of Benjamin
 · hamath a town of Syria on the Orontes between Aleppo and Damascus (OS)
 · Hamath a town of unknown location
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Jacob the second so of a pair of twins born to Isaac and Rebeccaa; ancestor of the 12 tribes of Israel,the nation of Israel,a person, male,son of Isaac; Israel the man and nation
 · Joseph the husband of Mary and foster-father of Jesus,a Jewish man from Arimathea in whose grave the body of Jesus was laid,two different men listed as ancestors of Jesus,a man nominated with Matthias to take the place of Judas Iscariot as apostle,a son of Jacob and Rachel; the father of Ephraim and Manasseh and ruler of Egypt,a brother of Jesus; a son of Mary,a man who was a companion of Paul,son of Jacob and Rachel; patriarch of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh,a tribe, actually two tribes named after Joseph's sons, Ephraim and Manasseh,father of Igal, of Issachar, who helped spy out Canaan,son of Asaph the Levite; worship leader under Asaph and King David,a man who put away his heathen wife; an Israelite descended from Binnui,priest and head of the house of Shebaniah under High Priest Joiakim in the time of Nehemiah
 · Karnaim a town about 40 km east of Lake Galilee (OS)
 · Lo-debar a town of Gad, probably 15 km NE of Beth-Shan, just across the Jordan
 · Lo-Debar a town of Gad, probably 15 km NE of Beth-Shan, just across the Jordan


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NET Notes: Amo 6:6 The ruin of Joseph may refer to the societal disintegration in Israel, or to the effects of the impending judgment.

NET Notes: Amo 6:7 Heb “of the sprawled out.” See v. 4.

NET Notes: Amo 6:8 Heb “the city”; this probably refers to the city of Samaria (cf. 6:1), which in turn, by metonymy, represents the entire northern kingdom.

NET Notes: Amo 6:10 This verse is notoriously difficult to interpret. The Hebrew text literally reads, “And he will lift him up, his uncle, and the one burning him,...

NET Notes: Amo 6:11 Or “is issuing the decree.”

NET Notes: Amo 6:12 The botanical imagery, when juxtaposed with the preceding rhetorical questions, vividly depicts and emphasizes how the Israelites have perverted justi...

NET Notes: Amo 6:13 Karnaim was also located across the Jordan River. The name in Hebrew means “double horned.” Since an animal’s horn was a symbol of s...

NET Notes: Amo 6:14 Lebo-Hamath refers to the northern border of Israel, the Stream of the Arabah to its southern border. See 2 Kgs 14:25. Through this invader the Lord w...

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