Amos 1:3
Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Damascus, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
Cross References
1 Kings 19:17And it shall come to pass, that he who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu shall kill. And he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall kill.
2 Kings 10:32In those days LORD began to cut off from Israel. And Hazael smote them in all the borders of Israel,
2 Kings 13:7For he did not leave to Jehoahaz of the people except fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.
Job 19:3These ten times ye have reproached me. Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
Ecclesiastes 11:2Give a portion to seven, yea, even to eight, for thou know not what evil shall be upon the earth.
Isaiah 8:4For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.
Matthew Henry on Amos 1:2-3
Amos Though this prophet appeared a little before Isaiah, yet he was not, as some have mistaken, that Amos who was the father of Isaiah ( Isa. i. 1 ), for in the Hebrew their names are very different; their families too were of a different character, for Isaiah was a courtier, Amos a country-farmer. Amos signifies a burden, whence the Jews have a tradition that he was of a slow tongue and spoke with stammering lips; we may rather, in allusion to his name, say that his speech was weighty and his word the burden of… Read the whole commentary →