Amos 1:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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:

For

Damascus

Zechariah 9:1

And for four

Amos 1:6

Because

Isaiah 41:15

General references

Deuteronomy 30:7

Bible References

For

Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:

Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

He shall deliver you in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch you.

These ten times have you reproached me: you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.

These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil shall be upon the earth.

Damascus

For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, so that it will not be a people.

For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

The burden concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

The burden of the word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach, and will rest upon Damascus: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.

And for four

Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:

Because

And it shall come to pass, that he that escapes the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and he that escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.

And Hazael said, Why do you weep my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that you will do unto the children of Israel: their strongholds will you set on fire, and their young men will you slay with the sword, and will dash their children, and rip up their women with child.

In those days the LORD began to cut off parts of Israel: and Hazael defeated them in all the territory of Israel;

And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, all their days.

Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills like chaff.

General references

And the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies, and on them that hate you, who persecuted you.