Amos 1:6
This is what Yahweh says: 1 “For three sins of Gaza, 1 even for four, 1 I will not turn away punishment, 1 because they carried away captive a whole people, 1 to hand them over to Edom. 1
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7I will send fire on the walls of Gaza, 1 and it will devour her fortresses. 1
Cross References
2 Chronicles 21:16Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and of the Arabians who were near the Cushites.
2 Chronicles 28:18The Philistines also invaded the cities of the lowlands and of the Negev of Judah. They took Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soko with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and also Gimzo with its villages. They went to live in those places.
Jeremiah 47:1This is the word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines. This word came to him before Pharaoh attacked Gaza. 1
Ezekiel 25:15The Lord Yahweh says this, 'The Philistines have taken vengeance with malice and from within themselves they tried to destroy Judah again and again.
Joel 3:6You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, 1 in order to remove them far from their territory. 1
Amos 1:9This is what Yahweh says: 1 “For three sins of Tyre, 1 even for four, 1 I will not turn away punishment, 1 because they had delivered up a whole people to Edom, 1 and they broke their covenant of brotherhood. 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 →