Amos 1:5
I will break the bar of Damascus,and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven,and him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden;and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir,"says the Lord.
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In Context
4but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael,and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.
Cross References
2 Kings 16:9The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.
Isaiah 43:14Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.
Jeremiah 51:30The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling places are set on fire; her bars are broken.
Ezekiel 30:17The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these cities shall go into captivity.
Amos 5:5but do not seek Bethel,nor enter into Gilgal,and do not pass to Beersheba:for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,and Bethel shall come to nothing.
Nahum 3:13Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
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 →