John Trapp on Amos 2:8

Verſe 8. And they lay themſelves down upon clothes] i. e. table-carpets, or bedcoverlets layd under thoſe that ſit at meat: whether on the ground, with their legs gathered under them (as the Turkiſh Baſhawes do to this day, and the Trojans of old-ſtratoque ſuper diſcumbitur oſtro) or at beds or tables,Turk. hiſt. fol. 231. Virg. Enead. lib. 1. Horat. 1. Car. od. 27. Vide Lambin. ad loc & Lipſ. lib. 3. Antiq. lection. leaning on the left elbow Eſth. 1.6. and 7, 8. Ioh. 13.28. Et cubito remanete preſſo.

laid to pledge] Theſe ſhould have been reſtored and not detayned beyond the time preſcribed Deut. 24.12, 13. Exod. 22.26, 27.

by every altar] It was their faſhion to feaſt in their Idol-temples 1. Cor. 8.10. and 10.21. See Horat. Oda. 37. lib. 1. And this in imitation, belike of Gods people, who were commanded to feaſt before the Lord, in the place that he ſhould chuſe to place his name in. See Deut. 14.23.26. 1 Sam. 1.3, 4. &c. And here Paucis verbis multiplex ſcelus arguit, ſaith Gualther, in few words he accuſeth them of much wickedneſſe.

and they drink the wine of the condemned in the houſe of their God] A God they have of their own deviſing, a wodden God, and ſuch as if he had but a paire of hornes clapt on his head, might make an excellent devill, (as the Major of Dancaſter told the wiſe men of Cockram in Q. Maries dayes, that came to complaine of the Carver for making them an ugly Crucifix) Next they drink wine in the houſe of their God,Act. and Mon. beſides their drink-offerings (which Davids ſoule hated Pſal. 16.4.) they had their drunken compotations in their Idoll-temples,Heyl. Geog. 449. as now they ſay in the Iſle of Sardinia after maſſe done, they fall to drinking and dancing in the middeſt of the Church: ſinging in the mean time ſongs too immodeſt for an Alehouſe. Laſtly,

they drink the wine of the condemned] or of ſuch as they have fined or mulcted, for not comming along with them to the Idol-temples. Diodate rendreth it, the wine of the amercements, that is bought with ſuch mony as they have unjuſtly amerced and condemned the innocent in. There are that here underſtood that wine that was wont to be given to malefactors led to execution Prov. 31.6. to cheer them up: but theſe wretches drank it off from them. The former ſenſe is the better.