Amos 1:3
Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four I will not convert it: because they have thrashed Galaad with iron wains.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4And I will send a fire into the house of Azael, and it shall devour the houses of Benadad.
Cross References
1 Kings 19:17And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall escape the sword of Hazael, shall be slain by Jehu: and whosoever shall escape the sword of Jehu, shall be slain by Eliseus.
2 Kings 10:32In those days the Lord began to he weary of Israel: and Hazael ravaged them in all the coasts of Israel,
2 Kings 13:7And Joachaz had no more left of the people than fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen: for the king of Syria had slain them, and had brought them low as dust by thrashing in the barnfloor.
Job 19:3Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.
Ecclesiastes 11:2Give a portion to seven, and also to eight: for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.
Isaiah 8:4For before the child know to call his father and his mother, the strength of Damascus, and the spoils of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of the Assyrians.
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 →