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Amos 6:6

Amos 6:6
That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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 of the…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

That drink wine in bowls - Perhaps the costliness of the drinking vessels, more than the quantity drank, is that which is here reprehended by the prophet. Drinking vessels of the most costly…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Amos 6:1-7

The first words of the chapter are the contents of these verses; but they sound very strangely, and contrary to the sentiments of a vain world: Woe to those that are at ease! We are ready to say,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

that drink with bowls of wine Not satisfied with ordinary cups. Bowlis properly a throwing-vessel, the root zâraḳsignifying to throwor dash in a volume, Lev 1:5; Lev 1:11, &c. (not to sprinkle, which…