Amos 1:3
For thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Damascus, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they have threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
4So will I 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 him that escapeth from the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay; and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
2 Kings 10:32In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short; and Hazael smote them in all the borders of Israel:
2 Kings 13:7For there was not left to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Aram destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.
Job 19:3These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed that ye deal harshly with me.
Ecclesiastes 11:2Divide a portion into seven, yea, even into eight; for thou knowest 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 →