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Amos 6

Amos 6:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Therefore now shall they go captive
galah (Hebrew #1540)
to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal
KJV usage: + advertise, appear, bewray, bring, (carry, lead, go) captive (into captivity), depart, disclose, discover, exile, be gone, open, X plainly, publish, remove, reveal, X shamelessly, shew, X surely, tell, uncover.
Pronounce: gaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
with the first
ro'sh (Hebrew #7218)
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
KJV usage: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, X every (man), excellent, first, forefront, ((be-))head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), X lead, X poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
Pronounce: roshe
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to shake
that go captive
galah (Hebrew #1540)
to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal
KJV usage: + advertise, appear, bewray, bring, (carry, lead, go) captive (into captivity), depart, disclose, discover, exile, be gone, open, X plainly, publish, remove, reveal, X shamelessly, shew, X surely, tell, uncover.
Pronounce: gaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
, and the banquet
mirzach (Hebrew #4797)
a cry, i.e. (of job), a revel
KJV usage: banquet.
Pronounce: meer-zakh'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to scream
of them that stretched
carach (Hebrew #5628)
to extend (even to excess)
KJV usage: exceeding, hand, spread, stretch self, banish.
Pronounce: saw-rakh'
Origin: a primitive root
themselves shall be removed
cuwr (Hebrew #5493)
a primitive root; to turn off (literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), X grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, X be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
Pronounce: soor
Origin: or suwr (Hosea 9:12) {soor}
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Ministry on This Verse

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Amos 5:5,27• 5{i}And seek not Bethel, neither go to Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba;{/i} for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
 27Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts. (Amos 5:5,27)
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Amos 7:11• 11For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land. (Amos 7:11)
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Deut. 28:41• 41{i}Sons and daughters shalt thou beget, but thou shalt not have them to be with thee; for they shall go into captivity.{/i} (Deut. 28:41)
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Luke 21:24• 24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by [the] nations until [the] times of [the] nations be fulfilled. (Luke 21:24)
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1 Kings 20:16‑20• 16{i}And they went out at noon; and Ben-Hadad drank himself drunk in the tents, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings that helped him.{/i}
 17{i}And the servants of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-Hadad sent out, and they told him saying, There are men come out of Samaria.{/i}
 18{i}And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.{/i}
 19{i}And these servants of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army that followed them.{/i}
 20{i}And they slew every one his man; and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them; and Ben-Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the horsemen.{/i} (1 Kings 20:16‑20)
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Esther 5:8,12‑14• 8if I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request—let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king hath said.
 12Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow also am I invited by her together with the king,
 13Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
 14Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman: and he caused the gallows to be made. (Esther 5:8,12‑14)
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Esther 7:1‑2,8‑10• 1And the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
 2And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.
 8Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
 9Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains that were before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman hath made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. And the king said, Hang him thereon.
 10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified. (Esther 7:1‑2,8‑10)
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Isa. 21:4• 4My heart panteth, horror affrighted me; the night of my pleasure hath he turned into trembling unto me. (Isa. 21:4)
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Dan. 5:4‑6• 4They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood and of stone.
 5In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
 6Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. (Dan. 5:4‑6)
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Nah. 1:10• 10for while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. (Nah. 1:10)
• They are told that they shall be with the first that go captive, and the noisy banquet (or revel shout) of the outstretched shall depart. It will be turned into mourning and the cry of despair. (“Amos 6” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Therefore shall they now go captive, with the first that go captiveg, and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "at the head of the captives"

W. Kelly Translation

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Therefore shall they now go captive, with the first that go captive, and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)