Amos 1:6
Thus saith Hashem: 1 For shloshah peysha'im of Azah (Gaza), 1 even for arba'ah, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; 1 because they carried away captive the golus shleimah (entire exiled population), 1 to deliver them up to Edom; 1
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2 Chronicles 21:16Moreover Hashem stirred up against Yehoram the ruach HaPelishtim, and of the Arabs, who lived near the Cushim;
2 Chronicles 28:18The Pelishtim also had invaded the towns of the Shefelah, and of the Negev of Yehudah, and had taken Beit-Shemesh, Ayalon, Gederot, and Sokhoh with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof, and they dwelt there.
Jeremiah 47:1The Devar Hashem that came to Yirmeyah HaNavi against the Pelishtim (Philistines), before Pharaoh smote Azah (Gaza). 1
Ezekiel 25:15Thus saith Adonoi Hashem: Because the Pelishtim (Philistines) have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with malice in nefesh, to destroy it for the eyvat olam (ancient enmity);
Amos 1:9Thus saith Hashem: 1 For shloshah peysha'im of Tzor, 1 even for arba'ah, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; 1 because they delivered up the golus shleimah to Edom, 1 and remembered not the brit achim; 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 →