Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Amos 6:6

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Amos 6:6 - 6:6

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Amos 6:6 - 6:6

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6:1 - 6:1
6:2 - 6:2
6:3 - 6:3
6:4 - 6:4
6:5 - 6:5
6:6 - 6:6
6:7 - 6:7
6:8 - 6:8
6:9 - 6:9
6:10 - 6:10
6:11 - 6:11
6:12 - 6:12
6:13 - 6:13
6:14 - 6:14

drink ... in bowls - in the large vessels or basins in which wine was mixed; not satisfied with the smaller cups from which it was ordinarily drunk, after having been poured from the large mixer.

chief ointments - that is, the most costly: not for health or cleanliness, but wanton luxury.

not grieved for the affliction of Joseph - literally, “the breach,” that is, the national wound or calamity (Psa 60:2; Eze 34:4) of the house of Joseph (Amo 5:6); resembling in this the heartlessness of their forefathers, the sons of Jacob, towards Joseph, “eating bread” while their brother lay in the pit, and then selling him to Ishmaelites.