Amos 6:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ That drink wined in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. ”

• Amos 6:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  That drink wine in bowls - (Literally, as the English margin, “drink in bowls,” literally, “sprinkling vessels, of wine”). The word is elsewhere used only of the “bowls,” out of which the blood o...

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• Amos 6:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not (f) grieved for the affliction of Joseph. (f) They did not pity their brethren, of which many were now slai...

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• Amos 6:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Luxury of Israel's Rulers. Extravagance in ritual often indicates a perverted sense of what constitutes a true philosophy of life. The price of luxury is far greater than men realise. The proph...

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• Amos 6:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  wine. Hebrew. yayin . App-27. bowls . sacred bowls; not in goblets. are not greived . do not afflict themselves affliction . breach: i.e. the breach of the two kingdoms ( 1 Kings 12 ). Compa...

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• Amos 6:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Amos now reproaches the chiefs of both kingdoms for drinking wine in bowls, that is, in vessels either elegantly formed or precious. Some think “silver” to be understood “in vessels of silver:”...

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• Amos 6:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. That drink wine in bowls - Perhaps the costliness of the drinking vess...

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• Amos 6:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  That drink wine in bowls— See the note on Psalms 75:8 . Proverbs 23:31 . Song of Solomon 8:2 . Upon a review of which it may be doubted, whether the drinking wine in bowls above spoken of is to...

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• Amos 6:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. That drink wine in bowls - in the large vessels or basins in w...

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• Amos 6:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Fourth Address 1-3. False security of Judah and Israel. 4-6 . Carelessness and luxury. 7-11 . Captivity, siege, death, ruin. 12, 13 . Preposterous errors. 14 . The coming of the avenge...

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• Amos 6:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Bowls. — The extent of their potations is indicated by the fact that they drink, not from wine-cups, but from large bowls (in which the wine was probably mixed). The same word is used in Exodus 38...

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• Amos 6:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  3. "AT EASE IN ZION" Amos 6:1-14 The evil of the national worship was the false political confidence which it engendered. Leaving the ritual alone, Amos now proceeds to assault this confidence....

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• Amos 6:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Woe to Them That Are at Ease in Zion!” Amos 6:1-14 Zion is included with Samaria in this prophecy and the nobles are especially condemned for their drunkenness, gluttony, and insolence. The pr...

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• Amos 6:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  From the formalists the prophet turned toward those who had lost all sense of the spiritual and the moral, and were indifferent, those were ''at ease in Zion," and "secure upon the mountains of Samar...

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• Amos 6:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  What is here said of Zion, in the days of the Prophet Amos, is equally applicable to the Church in all days. There is nothing more foreign to a state of grace, than a state of ease in the world. For...

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• Amos 6:6 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  SOCIAL INDIFFERENTISTS ‘Not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.’ Amos 6:6 Everywhere, on the altar of the priest, on the stall of the trader, on the threshold of the nobleman’s palace, Amo...

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• Amos 6:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  That drink wine in bowls ,.... Not in small cups or glasses, but in large bowls, that they might drink freely, even to drunkenness; hence we read of the drunkards of Ephraim, or the ten tribes, Isa...

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• Amos 6:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. Ver. 6. That drink wine in bowls ] Non in scyphis, cyathis, aut ca...

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• Amos 6:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ye that put far away the evil day Ye who persuade yourselves that God's judgments will not overtake you so soon as the predictions of the prophet import. And cause the seat of violence to come nea...

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• Amos 6:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Danger of False Security. B. C. 790.       1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and t...

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• Amos 6:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The prophet continues the woe still to these riotous feasters; the jovial, banqueting, dancing, and singing judges. That drink wine in bowls; not in little vessels, not in moderate glasses or cups,...

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• Amos 6:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Second Woe On Those Who Complacently Relaxed, Depending On YHWH's Protection, While They Also Totally Ignored His Requirements ( Amos 6:1-14 ). While Amos's mission was to Israel he never over...

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• Amos 6:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 6:4 .] Luxury added to oppression. Stretch ] Lit. pour themselves out, “dissolved, unnerved, in luxury and sloth.” Beds ] inlaid with ivory. Lambs ] Choice and delicio...

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• Amos 6:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Amos was a herdsman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit. His words are rugged, but sometimes he rises to sublimity. His expressions are somewhat dark, and not readily to be understood; but when we lear...

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• Amos 6:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Amos 6:1 . The mountain of Samaria. This city was built on a hill, like Zion, to make it impregnable. See note on Isaiah 28:1 . Amos 6:2 . Calneh, or Ctesiphon. It was situate almost opposite...

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• Amos 6:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near. Man’ s evil day I. All men have an evil day in their future. Calamities and trials are common to all. There is on...

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• Amos 6:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Amos 6:1-30 With a second woe the prophet denounces the chiefs of the whole nation, who were quite satisfied with the present state of things, and, revelling in luxury, feared no...

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• Amos 6:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The People Guilty of Security and Luxury

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• Amos 6:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 12:26 ; 1 Timothy 5:23 ; 2 Kings 15:29 ; 2 Kings 17:3-6 ; Esther 3:15 ; Genesis 37:25-28 ; Genesis 42:21 ; Genesis 42:22 ; Genesis 49:22 ; Hosea 3:1 ; Jeremiah 30:7 ; John 1...

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• Amos 6:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  In bowls — Not in little vessels, but probably bowls: they drank these filled as full as they could hold too, and in design to drink each other down. And anoint — In those hot countries this anoint...

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