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Amos 6:2-4
Evangelical Heritage Version

2 Travel to Kalneh and look.
    Go from there to Hamath Rabbah,
    and go down to Gath of the Philistines.
    Are you better than those kingdoms?
    Are their territories greater than your territory?[a]
3 You who are trying to put off the evil day,
    you bring near the session for violence!
4 Those who lie on ivory beds,
    sprawling upon their couches,
    eating lambs from the flock
    and calves straight from the stall,

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:2 The line of thought is difficult to follow here. The context seems to require that the two lines of the verse be parallel statements, each of which requires the answer “no.” The context therefore seems to call for reversing the second comparison, but there is no manuscript evidence to support such a switch.
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