Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
Three
Carried, etc
To edom
General references
Bible References
Three
Amos 1:3
Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Damascus and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.
Carried, etc
2 Chronicles 21:16
Then the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians;
2 Chronicles 28:18
The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country and towards the Negev of Judah and had taken Bethshemesh and Ajalon and Gederoth and Shocho with its villages and Timnah with its villages, Gimzo also and its villages, and they dwelt in them.
Joel 3:6
and ye have sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem unto the Grecians that ye might remove them far from their border.
To edom
Amos 1:9
Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Tyre and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom and did not remember the brotherly covenant;
Ezekiel 35:5
Because thou hast had perpetual enmities and hast scattered the sons of Israel to the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the extremely evil time:
Obadiah 1:11
In the day that thou didst stand on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
General references
Deuteronomy 30:7
And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies and on those that hate thee, who persecuted thee.