Amos 6:4

New Century Version

You lie on beds decorated with ivory and stretch out on your couches. You eat tender lambs and fattened calves.

Cross References

Genesis 37:25

While Joseph was in the well, the brothers sat down to eat. When they looked up, they saw a group of Ishmaelites traveling from Gilead to Egypt. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh.

Esther 1:6

The courtyard had fine white curtains and purple drapes that were tied to silver rings on marble pillars by white and purple cords. And there were gold and silver couches on a floor set with tiles of white marble, shells, and gems.

Psalm 73:7

They are looking for profits and do not control their selfish desires.

Isaiah 22:13

But look, the people are happy and are having wild parties. They kill the cattle and the sheep; they eat the food and drink the wine. They say, “Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we will die.”

Isaiah 28:1

How terrible it will be for Samaria, the pride of Israel’s drunken people! That beautiful crown of flowers is just a dying plant set on a hill above a rich valley where drunkards live.

Jeremiah 16:8

“Do not go into a house where the people are having a feast to sit down to eat and drink,

Ezekiel 16:49

“ ‘This was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were proud and had plenty of food and lived in great comfort, but she did not help the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 23:41

They sat on a fine bed with a table set before it, on which they put my incense and my oil.

Amos 3:12

This is what the Lord says: “A shepherd might save from a lion’s mouth only two leg bones or a scrap of an ear of his sheep. In the same way only a few Israelites in Samaria will be saved— people who now sit on their beds and on their couches.”

Amos 8:3

“On that day the palace songs will become funeral songs,” says the Lord God. “There will be dead bodies thrown everywhere! Silence!”

Micah 6:12

The rich people of the city do cruel things. Its people tell lies; they do not tell the truth.

Luke 16:19

Jesus said, “There was a rich man who always dressed in the finest clothes and lived in luxury every day.

James 5:5

Your life on earth was full of rich living and pleasing yourselves with everything you wanted. You made yourselves fat, like an animal ready to be killed.