Amos 1:11
Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Edom, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
10So will I send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
12So will I 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 wherewith his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart: 'Let the days of mourning for my father be at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.'
Numbers 20:20And he said: 'Thou shalt not pass through.' And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
Deuteronomy 23:7(23-8) Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother; thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.
2 Chronicles 20:11behold, they render unto us evil, to come to cast us out of Thy possession, which Thou hast given us to inherit.
Psalms 83:3(83-4) They hold crafty converse against Thy people, and take counsel against Thy treasured ones.
Psalms 137:7Remember, O LORD, against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said: 'Rase it, rase 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 →