Amos 1:3
This is what Yahweh says: 1 “For three sins of Damascus, 1 even for four, 1 I will not turn away punishment, 1 because they threshed Gilead with instruments of iron. 1
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4I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, 1 and it will devour the fortresses of Ben Hadad. 1
Cross References
1 Kings 19:17It will happen that Jehu will kill whoever escapes from the sword of Hazael, and that Elisha will kill whoever escapes from the sword of Jehu.
2 Kings 10:32In those days Yahweh began to cut off regions from Israel, and Hazael defeated the Israelites at the borders of Israel,
2 Kings 13:7The Arameans left Jehoahaz with only fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the chaff at threshing time.
Job 19:3These ten times you have reproached me; 1 you are not ashamed that you have treated me harshly. 1
Ecclesiastes 11:2Share it with seven, even eight people, 2 for you do not know what disasters are coming on the earth. 1
Isaiah 8:4For before the child knows to cry, 'My father,' and, 'My mother,' the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria.”
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 →