Amos 6:4

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Summary

That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

Lie

James 5:5

Stretch themselves upon their couches

1 Samuel 25:36

Psalm 73:7

Luke 12:19

General references

Bible References

Lie

Woe unto them that rise up early to use themselves in drunkenness, and yet at night are more superfluous with wine.

But they to fulfill their lust and willfulness, slaughter oxen: they kill sheep, they eat costly meat, and drink wine. "Let us eat and drink, tomorrow we shall die."

"There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple, and fine bysse, and fared deliciously every day.

Let us walk honestly as it were in the daylight: not in eating and drinking: neither in chambering and wantonness: neither in strife and envying:

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and in wantonness. Ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

Stretch themselves upon their couches

And when Abigail came to Nabal, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, and he was drunk a good. Wherefore she told him nought, neither little nor more, until the morrow day.

Their eyes swell with fatness, and they do even what they lust.

and I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up in store for many years, take thine ease: eat, drink and be merry.'

General references

And Abraham ran unto his beasts and fetched a calf that was tender and good, and gave it unto a young man, which made it ready at once.

They bear with them tabrets and harps, and have instruments of music at their pleasure.

Thou shalt not go into their feast house to sit down, much less to eat or drink with them.

Thus will I bring the melody of thy songs, and the voice of thy minstrelsy to an end, so that they shall no more be heard.