Amos 1:3
And thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their threshing Gilead with sharp-pointed irons,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
4And I have sent a fire against the house of Hazael, And it hath consumed the palaces of Ben-Hadad.
Cross References
1 Kings 19:17'And it hath been, him who is escaped from the sword of Hazael, put to death doth Jehu, and him who is escaped from the sword of Jehu put to death doth Elisha;
2 Kings 10:32In those days hath Jehovah begun to cut off [some] in Israel, and Hazael smiteth them in all the border of Israel,
2 Kings 13:7for he left not to Jehoahaz of the people except fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Aram hath destroyed them, and maketh them as dust for threshing.
Job 19:3These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me —
Ecclesiastes 11:2Give a portion to seven, and even to eight, For thou knowest not what evil is on the earth.
Isaiah 8:4for before the youth doth know to cry, My father, and My mother, one taketh away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Asshur.'
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 →