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

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gaza, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because they deported as exiles to deliver up a complete population to Edom.

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

He will deliver you in six troubles; yea, in seven no evil shall touch you.

And this, ten times you have blamed me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.

These six Jehovah hates; yea, seven are hateful to his soul:

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

Damascus

For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken so that it shall 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 against Damascus: Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a heap of ruins.

Concerning Damascus: Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard bad news. They are melted; anxiety is in the sea; it cannot be quiet.

The burden of the Word of Jehovah against the land of Hadrach, and its resting-place, Damascus (when the eye of man, and all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward Jehovah);

And for four

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gaza, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because they deported as exiles to deliver up a complete population to Edom.

Because

And it will be, whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill. And whoever escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.

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

In those days Jehovah began to cut Israel short. And Hazael struck them in all the border of Israel,

And the anger of Jehovah 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 make you a new sharp threshing instrument, a master of teeth; you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills like chaff.

General references

And Jehovah your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those that hate you, who persecuted you.