Amos 1:3
This is what the Lord says: The people of Damascus have repeatedly sinned and so I will not hesitate to punish them, for they beat the people of Gilead with sharp iron threshing tools.
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4So I will send fire down on the house of Hazael and burn up Ben-Hadad's fortresses.
Cross References
1 Kings 19:17Jehu will execute anyone who escapes the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will execute anyone who escapes the sword of Jehu.
2 Kings 10:32At that time the Lord began to reduce the extent of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory
2 Kings 13:7All that was left of Jehoahaz's army were fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand soldiers, for the king of Aram had destroyed the rest, turning them into dust like that when grain is threshed.
Job 19:3Ten times already you have humiliated me. Aren't you ashamed for treating me so badly?
Ecclesiastes 11:2Share what you own with seven or eight people, for you never know what disaster could happen.
Isaiah 8:4For even before the boy knows how to say ‘Daddy’ or ‘Mommy,’ the king of Assyria will carry off Damascus' wealth and Samaria's possessions.”
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 →