Amos 1:3
Thus saith Hashem: 1 For shloshah peysha'im of Damascus, 1 even for arba'ah, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; 1 because they have threshed Gil'ad with threshing sledges of barzel (iron); 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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In Context
4But I will send an eish onto Bais Chazael, 1 which shall devour the fortresses of Ben-Hadad. 1
Cross References
1 Kings 19:17And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the cherev of Chazael shall Yehu slay; and him that escapeth from the cherev of Yehu shall Elishah slay.
2 Kings 10:32In those days Hashem began to cut Yisroel down to size; and Chazael struck them down in all the territory of Yisroel;
2 Kings 13:7For he + 13:7 Melech Aram did leave of the army to Yehoachaz but 50 parashim, and 10 merkavot, and 10,000 foot soldiers; for Melech Aram had destroyed them, and had made them like the aphar for trampling.
Job 19:3These ten times have ye reproached me; 1 ye have no bushah that ye cause me astonishment. 1
Ecclesiastes 11:2Give chelek (portions) to shivah, and also to shmonah; 1 for thou knowest not what ra'ah shall be upon ha'aretz. 1
Isaiah 8:4For before the na'ar shall have da'as to cry, Avi, or Immi, the chayil Damascus and the spoil of Shomron shall be carried off before Melech Ashur.
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 →