Lay down — The Jews of old did not sit upright at their meals, but leaned on one side. Upon clothes — Of which the law had expressly said, none should detain them all night, Deuteronomy 24:12-13. Every altar — Of their idols. Drink the wine — They offer their drink — offerings in wine, which they bought with the fines laid on the innocent.
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Amos 2:8
8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemnedb in the house of their god.