Amos 1:5
I will break the gate bars of Damascus 1 and cut off the man who rules over the Valley of Aven, 1 and also the man who holds the scepter in Beth Eden. 1 The people of Aram will go in captivity to Kir,” 1 says Yahweh. 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
2 Kings 16:9Then the king of Assyria listened to him, and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, conquered it and carried off its people as prisoners to Kir. He also killed Rezin the king of Aram.
Isaiah 43:14This is what Yahweh says, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: 1 “For your sake I send to Babylon and lead them all down as fugitives, 1 turning the Babylonians' expressions of joy into songs of lamentation. 1
Jeremiah 51:30The soldiers in Babylon have stopped fighting; they stay in their strongholds. 1 Their strength has failed; they have become women—her homes are on fire, the bars of her gates are broken. 1
Ezekiel 30:17The young men in Heliopolis and Bubastis will fall by the sword, and their cities will go into captivity.
Amos 5:5Do not seek Bethel; 1 nor enter Gilgal; 1 do not journey to Beersheba. 1 For Gilgal will surely go into captivity, 1 and Bethel will become nothing. 1
Nahum 3:13See, the people among you are women; 1 the gates of your land have been opened wide to your enemies; 1 fire has devoured their bars. 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 →