Amo 6:7 | NETfull | STEP | Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile, and the religious banquets where they sprawl on couches will end.

Amos 6:7

7 Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile, ^{▼▼ Heb “they will go into exile at the head of the exiles.”}
and the religious banquets ^{▼▼ Religious banquets. This refers to the מַרְזֵחַ (marzeakh), a type of pagan religious banquet popular among the upper class of Israel at this time and apparently associated with mourning. See P. King, Amos, Hosea, Micah, 137–61; J. L. McLaughlin, The “Marzeah” in the Prophetic Literature (VTSup). Scholars debate whether at this banquet the dead were simply remembered or actually venerated in a formal, cultic sense.} where they sprawl on couches ^{▼▼ Heb “of the sprawled out.” See v. 4.} will end.