Amos 6:4

New International Version

You lie on beds adorned with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs and fattened calves.

Cross References

Genesis 37:25

As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.

Esther 1:6

The garden had hangings of white and blue linen, fastened with cords of white linen and purple material to silver rings on marble pillars. There were couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and other costly stones.

Psalm 73:7

From their callous hearts comes iniquity; their evil imaginations have no limits.

Isaiah 22:13

But see, there is joy and revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine! “Let us eat and drink,” you say, “for tomorrow we die!”

Isaiah 28:1

Woe to that wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower, his glorious beauty, set on the head of a fertile valley— to that city, the pride of those laid low by wine!

Jeremiah 16:8

“And do not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down to eat and drink.

Ezekiel 16:49

“ ‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 23:41

You sat on an elegant couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed the incense and olive oil that belonged to me.

Amos 3:12

This is what the Lord says: “As a shepherd rescues from the lion’s mouth only two leg bones or a piece of an ear, so will the Israelites living in Samaria be rescued, with only the head of a bed and a piece of fabric from a couch.”

Amos 8:3

“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing. Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!”

Micah 6:12

Your rich people are violent; your inhabitants are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully.

Luke 16:19

“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day.

James 5:5

You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.