Frequently threshing sledges (28:27) made of wood (2 Sam. More than a Bible handbook but less than a commentary, Nelson's New Illustrated Old Testament Survey provides a section by section breakdown of issues and topics dealt with in the Hebrew Scriptures. It includes: Complete but concise outlines of every Old Testament book A . The word transgression refers to acts of rebellion committed against someone in authority, such as when Israel rebelled against the house of David (1 Kgs. 3 Thus says the Lord,For three transgressions of Damascus and for fourI will not revoke its punishment,Because they threshed Gilead with implements of sharp iron.4So I will send fire upon the house of HazaelAnd it will consume the citadels of Ben-hadad.5 I will also break the gate bar of Damascus,And cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven,And him who holds the scepter, from Beth-eden;So the people of Aram will go exiled to Kir,Says the LORD. On the west and north the city was far and wide fenced by orchards, like thick dense woods, which stretched four or live miles toward Libanus. Thus saith the . The work is never done. T If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Thus the Church and members of the community of the Father sotra kinda Dont relate to the Process of the Hardened Hart and the compounded consequences of the deceitfulness of being habitually unfaithful in the little ways which bring about the cruelty of Amoss day. What then shall we say to these things? Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy! They sent them into captivity (or exile). Amos 1:3 Parallel Verses [ See commentary ] Amos 1:3, NIV: This is what the LORD says: 'For three sins of Damascus, even for four, I will not relent.Because she threshed Gilead with sledges having iron teeth, Amos 1:3, ESV: Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges . LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel, Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular, Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular | third person masculine singular, Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural, Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular, Gilead -- a region in Palestine, also the name of several Israelites, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural construct, Incised, incisive, a trench, gold, a threshing-sledge, determination, eager, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, OT Prophets: Amos 1:3 Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions (Amo. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. And he said: The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers. Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. They are a good reminder of what is required from us every day of our own lives. It was no part of the territory assigned to Israel, nor was it molested by them. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, TheLordhas done great things for them. TheLordhas done great things for us; we are glad. (LogOut/ His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.Leviticus 23:22 And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. Will the sun really be turned to darkness and the moon to blood (Joel 2:31). . In ancient Israel, gates and doors were usually locked with a bar made of wood or metal that slid into openings in the posts. Extemplo Aeneae solvuntur frigore membra: Ingemit; et, duplicis tendens ad sidera palmas, Talia voce refert: O terque quaterque beatif, Queis ante ora patrum Trojae sub moenibus altis, "Struck with unusual fright, the Trojan chief. G But although the fourth drew down His judgment, God, at the last, punishes not the last sin only, but all which went before. Are you not of more value than they?Isaiah 28:27 Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.Matthew 13:23 As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. 5 I will p break the gate-bar of l Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of q Aven, 4. and him who holds the scepter from r Beth-eden; This is what the LORD says: 'The people of Damascus have sinned again and again, and I will not let them go unpunished! TheLordblessed him,Psalm 1:3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. The identification of the sin becomes the key element of the oracle itself with its subsequent consequence. Amos condemns violent aggression (perhaps even torture and wanton killing), enslavement of populations, and the slave trade. Z. I can do all things through him who strengthens me. Tyre is condemned for the same sin as Gazathe deportation and sale of whole communities (cf. (LogOut/ It begins with their most oppressive enemy, Syria; then Philistia, the old and ceaseless, although less powerful, enemy; then Tyre, not an oppressor, as these, yet violating a relation which they had not, the bonds of a former friendship and covenant; malicious also and hardhearted through covetousness. a aq as _ \\ \ \ \ ss ce ake i arthur s. phelps his booke god give him grace. Change). With a small company of men he defeated a large army of Judah 2 Chronicles 24:23-24. So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad. Neglect a relationship and just like a field left unplowed, weeds will overrun everything and whatever was planted will die. because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. Geocoding Proverbs 12:11 says, Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense.Proverbs 28:19 says, He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vainpersonsshall have poverty enough. Deuteronomy 28:12 says, The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. It is mentioned in the Proverbs, as a capital punishment Proverbs 20:26; and is alluded to as such by Isaiah Isaiah 28:28. 3 Thus says the Lord: "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, Hebrew I will not . 3 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:. Throughout that whole beautiful tract, including 2 12 degrees of latitude, Hazael had carried on his war of extermination into every peaceful village and home, sparing neither the living nor the unborn. The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to theLord. The cities will be razed to the ground by an invading force. 1 Kings 9:13the brotherhood between Hiram of Tyre and Solomon of Israel). .--This form of transgression, which occurs eight times in the prologue, is not an arithmetical, but a strongly idiomatic phrase, signifying "multiplied or repeated delinquencies" (Henderson). What was the significance of the horns of the altar (Amos 3:14)? Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. Of the three on the south side, one is led to the populous village Daraya, five miles distant; the other two supply the city, its suburbs, and gardens., The like use was made of every fountain in every larger or lesser plain. 4 So I will send a fire on the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad. instead of the traditional point of view because of our westernization of the good news. Will you? If you go into your neighbors standing grain, you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbors standing grain., Micah 4:12 But they do not know the thoughts of theLord; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.Amos 1:3 Thus says theLord: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.Leviticus 19:9-10 When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.Job 1:14 And there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,1 Corinthians 15:38-39 But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. Although God delegated authority to human governments to execute justice (Romans 13:4), He is still the ultimate judge. A good tree doesnt produce bad fruitsconsider a grain of wheata sower went out to sowin story after story, Jesus Christ made use of scenes from everyday farm life to explicitly illustrate His points about the gospel and the kingdom of God. The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. You will be challenged and encouraged to be one who is firmly . Beginning with Damascus, Amos stated, Thus says theLord, Forthree transgressions ofDamascus and for four, I will notrevoke itspunishment. As mentioned earlier, the statement thus says the LORD tells the reader that the message of Amos originated from God. The three transgressions stand for a whole sum of sin, which had not yet brought down extreme punishment; the fourth was the crowning sin, after which God would no longer spare. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because theLords release has been proclaimed. Jehoash recovered from Benhadad III the cities this side Jordan 2 Kings 13:25; Jeroboam II, all their lost territories and even Damascus and Hamath 2 Kings 14:28. Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. They reach nearly to Anti-libanus westward, and extend on both sides of the Barada some miles eastward. Joel 2:24 speaks of that abundance as a sign of God's blessing if the people repent: "The threshing floors will be filled with grain. Elisha had foretold to Hazael his cruelty to Israel; Their strong holds thou wilt set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child 2 Kings 8:12. Its whole plain was intersected with canals, and tunneled below. Through studying this beautiful exposition on each of these eight books, you will gain understanding of the historical events and the countless precious spiritual applications and prophetic utterances that apply to the church today. Isaiah 41:15 Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff;Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.Genesis 1:11-12 And God said, Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth. And it was so. because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. R Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Amos 1:3 - Thus says the Lord: "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron." Leviticus 19:9-10 - " When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the . 2Kings 10:32-33.). Of Damascus - Damascus was one of the oldest cities in the world, and one of the links of its contact. In similar fashion, Damascus had threshed Gilead with their instruments of war. Amos 1:3 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: : Strong's LIT Online Bible Project You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. But there will be no poor among you; for theLordwill bless you in the land that theLordyour God is giving you for an inheritance to possess if only you will strictly obey the voice of theLordyour God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today. Genesis 1:11 says, Then God said, Let the land produce vegetation:seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds. And it was so. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. How then could it refuse to believe of itself, what it believed of others like itself? It is worth noting that each of the oracles begins with the formula For three transgressions of [name of city or state], even for four, though Amos only listed one transgression for each nation, except for Israel which received all four of them (Amos 2:616). The advantage of its site doubtless occastoned its early choice. Whichever is the case, Amos condemns Damascus for their violent aggression against Israel. They journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks, where they found rich, good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and peaceful, for the former inhabitants there belonged to Ham. Benhadad II had thirty-two vassal kings 1 Kings 20:1, 1 Kings 20:24, (dependent kings like those of Canaan, each of his own city and little territory,) and led them against Samaria, intending to plunder it 1 Kings 20:6-7, and, on occasion of the plundering, probably to make it his own or to destroy it. I would like to bring this forward in how we hear Amos,as individuals in the kingdom of THE FATHERS NEW COVENANT RELATIONSHIP. Before this, Scripture speaks of the people only of Damascus, not of their kings. The work has to be done. For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four. , Deuteronomy 28:8 TheLordwill command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you undertake. As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL And its never done for us. Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth, when there is no trap for it? And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child. The city of Damascus was called under judgment because that nation "threshed Gilead with implements of iron" (Amos 1:3) or behaved with unnecessary cruelty against a conquered . Sie suchen nach einem 70413 lego, das Ihren Ansprchen gerecht wird? VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. . You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. Theodoret supposes the horrible aggravation, that it was thus that the women with child were destroyed with their children, casting the aforesaid women, as into a sort of threshing-floor, they savagely threshed them out like ears of grain with saw-armed wheels.. Isaiah 7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. God also said He will cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven. We have detected that you are using extensions to block ads. What Does It Mean That There Is No One Holy Like God? Not only would the kingdom of Aram fall, and its rulers have their authority crushed, its people would be conquered and taken into exile by its conquerors. The LORD was the one who gave His words to His prophet. Grain is threshed with farming instruments, which back then might include a heavy board, studded with sharp metal used to pull over the grain to separate it from the husk. nothing big cus i Still hate to write. N Here, Damascus represents the entire nation of Aram (or Syria). And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. Sin adds to sin, out of which it grows; it does not overshadow the former sins, it does not obliterate them, but increases the mass of guilt, which God punishes. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, for three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron, I will not turn away the punishment thereof -, Because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron -, For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four -, , . Fire is used symbolically for Gods judgment, which would fall on the house of Hazael and the citadels of Ben-hadad. These things - Job says, worketh God twice and thrice with man, to bring back his soul from the pit Job 33:29. Y "O thrice and four times happy were the men. 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This historical account is followed by a description of Gods pronouncement of judgment on five pagan nationsSyria, Philistia, Phoenicia, Edom, and Ammon. In the visitations of others, it was to read its own; and that, the more, the nearer God was to them. As a result of God breaking the gate bar of Damascus, the people of Aram would go exiled to Kir. What is the meaning of the symbolism in Amos? And God saw that it was good. Although Israel and Judah were the primary audience of Gods message delivered through Amos, six other cities and nations Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, Ammon, Moab were also indicted. So Seneca in Hippolyt., Act. of The city named Kir was the place where the Arameans originally lived (Amos 9:7), although its precise location is unknown. Farming, which involves cultivating the land and raising livestock, is a part of agriculture. Gaza represents the alliance of Philistine citiesAshdod, Ashkelon, and Ekron [Gath is not named here]in southwestern Palestine. Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. Deuteronomy 4:24 says that God is a consuming fire. He wept because he knew the evil that [Hazael] will do to the people of Israel. In particular, Hazael will set their fortresses on firekill their young men with the sword, dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their pregnant women (2 Kings 8:12). On the west and north its plain lay sheltered under the range of Anti-libanus; on the east, it was protected by the great desert which intervened between its oasis-territory and the Euphrates. God commissioned Amos of Tekoa to proclaim His words to the Arameans to let them know that He took note of their transgressions, their offenses, and would judge accordingly. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like The words of Amos, who was among the sheep breeders of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of King Uzziah of Judah and in the days of King Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel, two years before the earthquake., For three transgressions of Damascus and for four, I will not revoke it; Because they have threshed Gilead with . And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. Sin in full bloom. All rights reserved. They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of theLord, and their descendants with them. Isaiah 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Future Assyrian campaigns will do just that in the 740s-720s BCE. Seven is used as a symbol of a whole, since on the seventh day God rested from all which He had made, and therefore the number seven entered so largely into the whole Jewish ritual. God was and is seeking usfor He will separate usable grain from the waste straw or chaff. VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. 4 So I will send a fire on the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. The Arameans have crushed [the people of] Gilead with iron-spiked threshing sledges. Immediately, it was bounded by the three lakes which receive the surplus of the waters which enrich it. Tyre also sent whole communities into slavery. Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. The difference is that Amos adds a further comment on the transgression: they did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.. . Thus says the Lord: "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. 2:694. Amos condemns raiding communities and capturing those populations in order to sell them in the international slave trade. It lay on the best route from the interior of Asia to the Mediterranean, to Tyre, and even to Egypt. What Does It Really Mean That Your Body Is a Temple? This entry was posted on The river, says William of Tyre, having abundant water, supplies orchards on both banks, thick-set with fruit-trees, and flows eastward by the city wall. He, having carried war against David, king of Judaea, and disputed with him in many battles, and that finally at the Euaphrates where he was defeated, had the character of a most eminent king for prowess and valor. God authorized human government in Genesis, where He said, Whoever sheds mans blood, by man his blood shall be shed, forin the image of God He made man (Genesis 9:6).
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