Amos 1:3-5 - Damascus Will Be Judged For Its Crimes
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. 4 I will send fire to the house of Hazael and it will devour the palaces of Ben-hadad. 5 I will destroy the lock (bar) at the gate of Damascus, and annihilate the inhabitant from the valley of Aven. He who holds the scepter (imperial authority) from the house of Eden and the people of Syria will go into captivity to Kir, said Jehovah.