Amos 1:11
Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.
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In Context
10And I will send forth a fire on the walls of Tyre, and it shall devour the foundations of it.
12And I will send forth a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the foundations of her walls.
Cross References
Genesis 27:41And Esau was angry with Jacob because of the blessing, with which his father blessed him; and Esau said in his mind, Let the days of my father’s mourning draw nigh, that I may slay my brother Jacob.
Numbers 20:20And he said, Thou shalt not pass through me; and Edom went forth to meet him with a great host, and a mighty hand.
Deuteronomy 23:7Thou shalt not speak peaceably or profitably to them all thy days forever.
2 Chronicles 20:11yet now, behold, they make attempts against us, to come forth to cast us out from our inheritance which thou gavest us.
Psalms 83:3My soul longs, and faints for the courts of the Lord: 1 My heart and my flesh have exulted in the living God. 1
Psalms 137:7Though I should walk in the midst of affliction, thou wilt quicken me; 1 Thou hast stretched forth thy hands against the wrath of mine enemies, 1 And thy right hand has saved me. 1
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 →