1:15 Ammon’s 1 king will be deported; 2
he and his officials 3 will be carried off 4 together.”
The Lord has spoken!
6:7 Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile, 5
and the religious banquets 6 where they sprawl on couches 7 will end.
1 tn Heb “their”; the referent (Ammon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “will go into exile.”
3 tn Or “princes” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NLT); TEV “officers”; CEV “leaders.”
4 tn The words “will be carried off” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
5 tn Heb “they will go into exile at the head of the exiles.”
6 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.
7 tn Heb “of the sprawled out.” See v. 4.