Amos 1:3
And the Lord said, For three sins of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they sawed with iron saws the women with child of the Gileadites.
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1 Kings 19:17And it shall come to pass, that him that escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu shall slay; and him that escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall slay.
2 Kings 10:32In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short; and Hazael smote them in every coast of Israel;
2 Kings 13:7Whereas there was not left any army to Jehoahaz, except fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry: for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and they made them as dust for trampling.
Job 19:3Ye speak against me; ye do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me. 1
Ecclesiastes 11:2Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; 1 For thou knowest not what evil there shall be upon the earth. 1
Isaiah 8:4For before the child shall know how to call his father or his mother, one shall take the power of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria before the king of the Assyrians.
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 →