Amos 1:11
Thus, saith Yahweh, Because of three transgressions of Edom, and because of four, will I not turn it back,—Because he pursued, with the sword, his brother, and stifled his compassions, and his anger tare in pieces evermore, and, his indignation, kept watch perpetually,
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
10Therefore will I send a fire upon the wall of Tyre,—which shall devour the palaces thereof.
12Therefore will I send a fire into Teman,—which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
Cross References
Genesis 27:41And Esau lay in wait for Jacob, on account of the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him,—and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father draw near, when I can slay Jacob my brother.
Numbers 20:20And he said, Thou shalt not pass through. And Edom came out to meet him, with a strong people, and with a firm hand.
Deuteronomy 23:7Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for thy brother, he is,—thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, for a sojourner, becamest thou in his land;
2 Chronicles 20:11yea lo! they, are requiting us,—by coming to drive us out, from thy possession, which thou didst cause us to possess.
Psalms 83:3Against thy people, they craftily devise a secret plot, And conspire against thy treasured ones.
Psalms 137:7Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem,—how they continued to say—Overthrow! Overthrow! unto the foundation within it.
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 →