Amos 1:15

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!

Amos 6:7

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.

[1:15]  ¹ tn Heb “their”; the referent (Ammon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:15]  ² tn Heb “will go into exile.”

[1:15]  ³ tn Or “princes” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NLT); TEV “officers”; CEV “leaders.”

[1:15]  ⁴ tn The words “will be carried off” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[6:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “they will go into exile at the head of the exiles.”

[6:7]  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.

[6:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “of the sprawled out.” See v. 4.