Amos 1:13

Thus saith Hashem: 1 For shloshah peysha'im of the Bnei Ammon, 1 even for arba'ah, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; 1 because they have ripped open the women with child of Gil'ad, 1 that they might enlarge their border; 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:

In Context

12But I will send an eish upon Teman, 1 which shall devour the fortresses of Botzrah. 1

14But I will kindle an eish in the chomah (wall) of Rabbah, 1 and it shall devour the fortresses thereof, 1 with war cries in the yom milchamah, 1 with a tempest in the yom sufah (day of the storm); 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 2:19And when thou comest opposite the Bnei Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them; for I will not give thee of the Eretz Bnei Ammon any yerushah; because I have given it unto the Bnei Lot for a yerushah.

Judges 10:7And the Af Hashem was hot against Yisroel, and He sold them into the yad Pelishtim (Philistines), and into the yad Bnei Ammon.

1 Samuel 11:1Then Nachash the Ammoni came up, and laid siege to Yavesh Gil'ad; and all the anashim of Yavesh said unto Nachash, Make a brit with us, and we will serve thee.

2 Samuel 12:31And he brought forth ha'am that were therein, and put them under saws, and under threshing tools of barzel, and under axes of barzel, and made them go through the brickkilns; and thus did he unto all the towns of the Bnei Ammon. So Dovid and kol haAm returned unto Yerushalayim.

2 Kings 15:16Then from Tirtzah Menachem attacked Tiphsach, and all that were therein, and the surrounding area; because they opened not to him, therefore he sacked it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped open.

2 Chronicles 20:1It came to pass after this also, that the Bnei Moav, and the Bnei Ammon, and with them some Ammonim, came against Yehoshaphat to make milchamah.

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 →

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