Amos 1:3

The Lord saith these things, On three great trespasses of Damascus, and on four, I shall not convert it, for it threshed Gilead in iron wains. (The Lord saith these things, For the three great trespasses of Damascus, and for the fourth, I shall not turn away their punishment, for they carved, or sliced, up the people of Gilead with iron wagons, or with iron sleds.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

2And he said, The Lord shall roar from Zion, and shall give his voice from Jerusalem; and the fair things of shepherds mourned, and the top of Carmel was made dry, (or and the pastures of the shepherds were parched, and the top of Mount Carmel was made dry).

4And I shall send fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the houses of Benhadad.

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Cross References

1 Kings 19:17And it shall be, whoever shall flee the sword of Hazael, Jehu shall slay him; and whoever shall flee the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall slay him.

2 Kings 10:32In those days the Lord began to be annoyed upon Israel + 10:32 That is, to have abomination of (or for) her deeds, for the worshipping of idols had endured long then (or for worshipping idols had long endured then), and many other evils came forth with those, and therefore that realm was suffered, (or allowed), to be tormented by Hazael in many manners. (or In those days the Lord began to do harm to Israel); and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel,

2 Kings 13:7And to Jehoahaz were not left of the people, but five hundred knights, and ten chariots, and ten thousand of footmen; for the king of Syria had slain them, and had driven them [down] as into powder in the threshing of a cornfloor. (And there were left of the people to Jehoahaz, but five hundred horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had killed them, and had driven them down like the dust from the threshing on a threshing floor.)

Job 19:3Lo! ten times ye have shamed me, and ye (still) be not ashamed, (for) oppressing me.

Ecclesiastes 11:2Give thou (thy) parts (to) seven, and also (to) eight, ( that is, put not all thy eggs in one basket); for thou knowest not, what evil shall come [up] on (the) earth.

Isaiah 8:4For why before that the child know how to call his father and his mother, the strength of Damascus shall be done away, and the spoils of Samaria, before the king of Assyrians. (And before that the child shall know how to call his father and his mother, the wealth of Damascus, and the spoils of Samaria, shall be carried off by 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 →

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