Again, give a portion to seven, and also to eight Ecclesiastes 11:2. Weeds grow everywhere and all of the time. 5 I will break the gate bars of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; 1:1). Contact me: openbibleinfo (at) gmail.com. For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.Jeremiah 5:24 They do not say in their hearts, Let us fear theLordour God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest., Ezekiel 27:17 Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, meal, honey, oil, and balm.Matthew 9:37 Then he said to his disciples, The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;Isaiah 30:24 And the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.Isaiah 28:24 Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? The community or people to which Amos refers is Judah. These quotations are sufficient to show that this form of speech is neither unfrequent nor inelegant, being employed by the most correct writers of antiquity. 3 This is what the LORD says: "For three sins of Damascus, even for four, I will not relent. The order of Gods threatenings seems to have been addressed to gain the hearing of the people. Amos 1:3-5 NASB95 - Thus says the LORD, | Biblia Again, Sowing discord among brethren Proverbs 6:16-19, has a special hatefulness, as not only being sin, but causing widewasting sin, and destroying in others the chief grace, love. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. 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It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that theLordyour God may bless you in all the work of your hands., Deuteronomy 22:9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.Deuteronomy 28:1-68 And if you faithfully obey the voice of theLordyour God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, theLordyour God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. <-144 , . 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 . If they who sinned without law, perished without law Romans 2:12, how much more should they who have sinned in the law, be judged by the law. Gods judgments rolled round like a thunder-cloud, passing from land to land, giving warning of their approach, at last to gather and center on Israel itself, except it repent. God would cause the one holding the scepter to be cut off from Beth-Eden. Every infliction on those like ourselves finds an echo in our own consciences. Such an attraction caused the Arameans to thresh the Israelites of Gilead with implements of sharp iron. because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. I will break the gate-bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from . Will the sun really be turned to darkness and the moon to blood (Joel 2:31). 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. Tagged: Amos, Amos 1:3-5, Amos 1:6-8, Amos 1:9-10, Ethics, Nations, Violence. 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.. 24:22) with stone or metal teeth embedded in the bottom side were dragged over the grain by these animals. Many people were farmers or at least very familiar with farming. Because she threshed Gilead with sledges having iron teeth, 4 I will send fire on the house of Hazael that will consume the fortresses of Ben-Hadad. The place called Beth-Eden refers to an Aramean state located on the Euphrates River south of Carchemish. U And as such, it was easier and more effective, to point to a farmer in the field, the numerous plants growing around them, or the shepherds tending nearby flocks and reference the heart of God or another gospel truth about Gods kingdom. Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet? Any crime committed against human beings is ultimately against the LORD because He is the sole creator. 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. As such, it attracted the Arameans who were one of the most frequent enemies of Israel. Visit the Bible online to search for words if you dont know the specific passage yourre looking for. The sense is, that he would not spare them, or have mercy on them, or defer the execution of punishment any longer; he would not forgive their transgressions. Amos 1:3 - NIV - This is what the - Christianity D 2 Chronicles 21:16-17)and removed them to Edom (which is located southeast of Judah). Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away. The oracles against the nations are intricately structured. Get our Question of the Week delivered right to your inbox! . - Iron teeth (1:3): "Iron teeth" were part of a threshing sledge, a farming implement drawn over grain to thresh it and cut the stalks. The city named Kir was the place where the Arameans originally lived (Amos 9:7), although its precise location is unknown. The name Damascus probably betokened the strenuous, energetic character of its founder. You are Gods field, Gods building., Mark 4:26 And he said, The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground.Mark 4:31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth,Jeremiah 29:5 Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce.Leviticus 19:23-25 When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, then you shall regard its fruit as forbidden. Hazael not only took from Israel all east of Jordan 2 Kings 10:32-33, but made the whole open country unsafe for the Israelites to dwell in. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5 I will break the gate bars of Damascus and I will cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven and the one who takes . , Job 24:10 They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;Psalm 35:5 Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of theLorddriving them away!Job 21:18 That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?1 Chronicles 21:23 Then Ornan said to David, Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems good to him. Its white buildings, embedded in the deep green of its engirdling orchards, were like diamonds encircled by emeralds. See the passionate exclamation of Ulysses, in the storm, Odyss., lib. The fact that his chief and confidential servant whom he entrusted to seek a wife for Isaac, and who was, at one time, his heir, was a Damascene Genesis 15:2-3, implies some intimate connection of Abraham with Damascus. epcsermon: Amos - For Three Sins of Damascus 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. Amos 1:3 . 4 tn Heb "they threshed [or "trampled down"] Gilead with sharp iron implements" (NASB similar). 41:15).The NKJV Study Bible. God also said He will cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven. Deuteronomy 4:24 says that God is a consuming fire. Publisher: OpenBible.info. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. But in the fifth year you may eat of its fruit, to increase its yield for you: I am theLordyour God., 1 Corinthians 3:6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.Psalm 85:12 Yes, theLordwill give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.Hebrews 13:16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.Matthew 3:12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.. N Adam, the first human in the Bible, is also the first farmer. Lest it should be thought that the words that Amos spoke were his own, and he spake them of himself, this and the following prophecies are prefaced in this manner; and he begins with the nations near to the people of Israel and Judah, who had greatly afflicted them, and for that reason would be punished; which is foretold, to let Israel see that those judgments on them did not come by chance; and lest they should promise themselves impunity from the prosperity of these sinful nations; and to awaken them to a sense of their sin and danger, who might expect the visitation of God for their transgressions; as also to take off all offence at the prophet, who began not with them, but with their enemies: for three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; Damascus was an ancient city; it was in the times of Abraham, Genesis 15:2. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.Deuteronomy 28:8 The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you undertake. And he gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that you act quickly. But the Levites did not act quickly. V Threshing - Wikipedia On some days, the only thing the farmer can do is sit, wait, and hope for the best. Of the situation of this place, and the delightfulness of it; see Gill on Jeremiah 49:25; and of its founder, and the signification of its name; see Gill on Acts 9:2; to which may be added, that though Justin says it had its name from Damascus, a king of it before Abraham and Israel, whom he also makes kings of it; and Josephus would have Uz the son of Aram the founder of it, to which Bochart agrees; yet the Arabic writers ascribe the building of it to others; for the Arabs have a tradition, as Schultens says, that there were Canaanites anciently in Syria; for they talk of Dimashc the son of Canaan, who built the famous city of Damascus, and so it should seem to be called after his name; and Abulpharagius says, that Murkus or Murphus, as others call him, king of Palestine, built the city of Damascus twenty years before the birth of Abraham: from this place many things have their names, which continue with us to this day, as the "damask" rose, and the "damascene" plum, transplanted from the gardens that were about it, for which it was famous; and very probably the invention of the silk and linen called "damasks" owes its rise from hence. Amos 1:6,9-2:16 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: . , Deuteronomy 22:10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.Hebrews 6:7 For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.Deuteronomy 22:9-11 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard. The Threshing Sledge - Br. David Allen - SSJE This is what the LORD says: "For three sins of Damascus, even for four, I will not relent. 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 . Chedorlaomer and the four kings with him, doubtless, came that way, since the first whom they smote were at Ashteroth Karnaim Genesis 14:5-6 in Jaulan or Gaulonitis, and thence they swept on southward, along the west side of Jordan, smiting, as they went, first the Zuzim, (probably the same as the Zamzummim Deuteronomy 2:2 O) in Ammonitis; then the Emim in the plain of Kiriathaim in Moab Genesis 14:15. These things - Job says, worketh God twice and thrice with man, to bring back his soul from the pit Job 33:29. 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 great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. 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. Randall. R Every day, just like the farmer, we must show up and do the work. Will you? This entry was posted on So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad. Proud member David had had, for some cause unexplained by Holy Scripture, to inflict it on the Ammonites 2 Samuel 12:31; 1 Chronicles 20:3. because they have threshed m Gilead . And thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their threshing Gilead with sharp-pointed irons, - Youngs Literal Bible For thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Damascus, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they have threshed Gilead with sledges of iron. Restore our fortunes, OLord, like streams in the Negeb! So Paul speaks of those who treasure up to themselves wrath against the Day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God Romans 2:5. Holman Old Testament Commentary: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah by Trent Butler. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Other poets use the same form of expression. The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai. God is longsuffering and ready to forgive; but when the sinner finally becomes a vessel of wrath Romans 9:22, He punishes all the earlier sins, which, for the time, He passed by. You cant speed that up. 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). For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four. I will not turn away the punishment thereof - Literally, I will not turn it back. What was this, which God would not turn back? He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away; , 1 Samuel 13:21 And the charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.2 Kings 19:29 And this shall be the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. 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. All time was measured by seven. Amos 1:1-15 KJV; The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa instead of the traditional point of view because of our westernization of the good news. Amos 1 contains a brief historical account on the prophetic ministry of Amos, providing the reader with the date of Amoss ministry and how the LORD has called him to minister to Israel. Kings who entered treaties with each other typically thought of themselves as brothers (cf. What is the meaning of the symbolism in Amos? - GotQuestions.org Revised Standard Version w/ Apocrypha. Q Stated differently, the cities/nations would not be judged merely because of one transgression or even two. More insights from your Bible study - Get Started with Logos Bible Software for Free! The identified crime becomes the central ethical condemnation (1:3, 6, 9). Other Translations of Amos 1:3 King James Version. As such, patience is a required virtue for a farmer. International ethics are important to Amos. Chapter 34: Amos: Prepare to Meet Your God - Nelson's Old Testament A threshing sledge was pulled by a large animal. Neglect a relationship and just like a field left unplowed, weeds will overrun everything and whatever was planted will die. The LORD was the one who gave His words to His prophet. threshedReverso Context-: Rock threshing floors: seeds were threshed there with the help of animals.