Amos 1:11
Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Edom, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity. And his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
10But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the palaces of it.
12But I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
Cross References
Genesis 27:41And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.
Numbers 20:20And he said, Thou shall not pass through. And Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.
Deuteronomy 23:7Thou shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother. Thou shall not abhor an Egyptian, because thou were a sojourner in his land.
2 Chronicles 20:11behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou have given us to inherit.
Psalms 83:3They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult together against thy hidden ones.
Psalms 137:7Remember, O LORD, the day of Jerusalem against the sons of Edom, who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof.
Matthew Henry on Amos 1:4-15
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 790.) 3 Thus saith the Lord ; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: 4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad. 5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into… Read the whole commentary →