Amos 1:3
Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because they have threshed [the inhabitants of] Gil'ad with threshing instruments of iron;
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
4And I will send a fire into the house of Chazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
Cross References
1 Kings 19:17And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Chazael shall Jehu slay; and him that escapeth the sword of Jehu shall Elisha' slay.
2 Kings 10:32In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short; and Chazael smote them in all the boundary of Israel;
2 Kings 13:7For he had left of people to Jehoachaz none but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand men on foot; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust at threshing.
Job 19:3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed when ye show yourselves as strangers to me.
Ecclesiastes 11:2Give a portion to seven, and also to eight: for thou knowest not what evil may come upon the earth.—
Isaiah 8:4For before yet the boy shall know to call, My father, and my mother, the wealth 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 →