Amos 1:3
Thus, saith Yahweh, Because of three transgressions of Damascus, and because of four, will I not turn it back,—Because, with threshing instruments of iron, they have threshed Gilead.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
4Therefore will send a fire, into the house of Hazael,—which shall devour the palaces of Ben- hadad;
Cross References
1 Kings 19:17Then shall it come to pass, that—him that escapeth the sword of Hazael, shall, Jehu, slay,—and, him that escapeth the sword of Jehu, shall, Elisha, slay;
2 Kings 10:32In those days, began Yahweh to make inroads in Israel,—and Hazael smote them in all the boundaries of Israel;
2 Kings 13:7For he had not left remaining unto Jehoahaz a people, save only fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen,—for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like dust in threshing.
Job 19:3These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me.
Ecclesiastes 11:2Give a portion to seven, yea even to eight,—for thou canst not know, what there shall be of misfortune, upon the earth.
Isaiah 8:4For before the boy shall have knowledge to cry, My father! and, My mother! the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before 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 →