Amos 6:7
in Amos 6Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Therefore shall they now go captive with the first that go captive; and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.
KJV
Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
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This verse in Amos 6
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Therefore now (that is, shortly) shall they go captive with the first (at the head) of those who go captive - They had sought eminence; they should have it. Jerome: “Ye who are first in riches, shall, the first, endure the yoke of captivity, as it is in Ezekiel, ‘begin from My sanctuary’ Eze 9:6, that is, from the destruction of the Temple which is holy.
This site's exposition
the banquet of them that stretched themselves
on Amos 6:7-8
The sentence answers the banquet directly, therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed, exile falling first on the very class that felt itself most secure. The Lord God hath sworn by himself intensifies the oath beyond any earlier one in the book, since there is no greater name to swear by, and I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces reverses the nation's own pride in its architecture into the object of divine hatred. The bench reads the palaces named here as the same houses of hewn stone Amos already condemned in chapter 5.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Vers. 7 seqq.) Therefore now they will migrate to the head of the transmigrants, and the faction of the revelers will be removed.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
How strongly this burden is bound on, not to be shaken off by their presumption and security; for it is bound by the Lord the God of hosts, by his mighty, his almighty, hand, which none can resist; it is bound with an oath, which puts the sentence past revocation: The Lord God has sworn, and he will not repent, and, since he could swear by no greater, he has sworn by himself.
Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
With the first that go captive - The house of Israel shall be carried into captivity before the house of Judah.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לָכֵ֛ן | lakhen | <to> therefore | H3651 → | 771 times |
| עַתָּ֥ה | ʾatah | now | H6258 → | |
| יִגְל֖וּ | yiglu | they will go into exile | H1540 → | 186 times |
| בְּרֹ֣אשׁ | berosh | at [the] head of | H7218 → | 599 times |
| גֹּלִ֑ים | golim | [those who] go into exile | H1540 → | 186 times |
| וְסָ֖ר | vesar | and it will come to an end | H5493 → | |
| מִרְזַ֥ח | mirzach | [the] revelry of | H4797 → | |
| סְרוּחִֽים׃ פ | seruchim | sprawled out [people] | H5628 → |
לָכֵ֛ן<to> therefore
lakhenH3651 →771 times
עַתָּ֥הnow
ʾatahH6258 →
יִגְל֖וּthey will go into exile
yigluH1540 →186 times
בְּרֹ֣אשׁat [the] head of
beroshH7218 →599 times
גֹּלִ֑ים[those who] go into exile
golimH1540 →186 times
וְסָ֖רand it will come to an end
vesarH5493 →
מִרְזַ֥ח[the] revelry of
mirzachH4797 →
סְרוּחִֽים׃ פsprawled out [people]
seruchimH5628 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Amos 5:5Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
it leads to
- Hosea 4:15
Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’
- Amos 8:14
Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”
- Amos 4:4
“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.
- Genesis 21:33
And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
- Amos 7:17
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring…
- Hosea 4:15
Through
Deuteronomy 28:41You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:32
Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.
- Deuteronomy 28:32
Through
Amos 7:11for this is what Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
it leads to
- Amos 6:7–8
Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.
- 2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the…
- Amos 6:7–8
About Amos

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Edward Bouverie Pusey, The Minor Prophets: A Commentary; Jerome, Commentary on Amos; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
