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Amos 2:1

Thus saith Hashem: 1 For shloshah peysha'im of Moav, 1 even for arba'ah, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; 1 because he burned the bones 1 of Melech Edom into lime; 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

In Context

2But I will send an eish upon Moav, 1 and it shall devour the fortresses of Keriyot; 1 and Moav shall die with tumult, 1 with war cries, and with the blast of the shofar; 1

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Cross References

Numbers 22:1And the Bnei Yisroel set forward, and encamped in the plains of Moav on the bank of the Yarden by Yericho. 1 [BALAK]

2 Kings 3:9So Melech Yisroel, Melech Yehudah, Melech Edom went, made a circuit of shivat yamim in their derech; and there was no mayim for the machaneh, and for the behemah that followed them.

Psalms 83:4They lay out a crafty conspiracy against Amecha (Thy people), 1 and plot against Tzefunecha (Thy sheltered, protected, hidden ones). 1

Isaiah 11:14But they shall swoop down upon the shoulders of the Pelishtim toward the west; 1 they shall plunder them of the east together; 1 they shall lay their yad upon Edom and Moav; 1 and the Bnei Ammon shall obey them. 1

Isaiah 25:10For in Har Hazeh + 25:10 i.e., Mount Tziyon shall the Yad Hashem rest, 1 and Moav shall be trodden down under Him, 1 even as straw is trodden down in dung. 1

Ezekiel 25:8Thus saith Adonoi Hashem: Because Moav and Se'ir do say, Hinei, the Bais Yehudah is like all the Goyim;

Matthew Henry on Amos 2:1

In this chapter, I. God, by the prophet, proceeds in a like controversy with Moab as before with other nations, ver. 1-3 . II. He shows what quarrel he had with Judah, ver. 4, 5 . III. He at length begins his charge against Israel, to which all that goes before is but an introduction. Observe, 1. The sins they are charged with—injustice, oppression, whoredom, ver. 6-8 . 2. The aggravations of those sins—the temporal and spiritual mercies God had bestowed upon them, for which they had made him such ungrateful… Read the whole commentary →

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