Amos 1:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 ¶ Thus saith the Lord, For [a]three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn to it, because they have [b]threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.
4 Therefore will I send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the [c]palaces of Ben-Hadad.
5 I will break also the bars of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant of Bikeath-Aven: and him that holdeth the scepter out of Beth Eden, and the people of Aram shall go into captivity unto [d]Kir, saith the Lord.
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- Amos 1:3 He showeth first that all the people round about should be destroyed for their manifold sins: which are meant by three and four, which make seven, because the Israelites should the more deeply consider God’s judgments toward them.
- Amos 1:3 If the Syrians shall not be spared for committing this cruelty against one city, it is not possible that Israel should escape punishment which hath committed so many and grievous sins against God and man.
- Amos 1:4 The antiquity of their buildings shall not avoid my judgments, read Jer. 49:27.
- Amos 1:5 Tiglath-Pileser led the Assyrians captive, and brought them to Cyrene, which he calleth here Kir.
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