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

General references

Bible References

Three

Amos 1:3
I will not hold back punishment, said Jehovah, For the many transgressions of Damascus. This is because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.

Carried, etc

2 Chronicles 21:16
Later Jehovah caused the Philistines and the Arabs who lived near the Ethiopians to become angry with Jehoram.
2 Chronicles 28:18
The Philistines raided the foothills and the Negev in Judah. They captured and began living in Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco and its villages, Timnah and its villages, and Gimzo and its villages.
Joel 3:6
You sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks. You remove them far from their border.

To edom

Amos 1:9
Jehovah continued: For the many transgressions of Tyre I will not withdraw punishment! They captured all the people and delivered them to Edom. They did not remember the brotherly covenant.
Ezekiel 35:5
Because you have had everlasting enmity and have delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the sword (to die by warfare) at the time of their calamity, at the time of the punishment of the end.'
Obadiah 1:11
In that day you stood on the other side! In that day strangers carried away his wealth. Foreigners entered his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem! It was as if you were one of them!

General references

Deuteronomy 30:7
Jehovah your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you and who persecute you.