Amos 1:3 Cross References - LEB

³ Thus says Yahweh, "For three transgressions of Damascus and for four I will not revoke the punishment,* because they threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron!

¹⁷ It shall be that the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall kill.

¹² Then Hazael asked, "Why is my lord crying?" He said, "Because I know what evil you will do to the _⌊Israelites_⌋.* You will _⌊set their fortifications on fire_⌋,* and you will kill their young men with the sword. Their little ones you will dash to pieces, and their pregnant women you will rip open!"

³² In those days, Yahweh began to reduce Israel, so Hazael defeated them in every territory of Israel, ³³ from the Jordan eastward: all of the land of Gilead, the Gadites, the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer which is on the Wadi Arnon and Gilead and Bashan.

³ So the _⌊anger of Yahweh was kindled_⌋* against Israel, and he gave them into the hand of Hazael king of Aram and into the hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael _⌊repeatedly_⌋.*

⁷ For there was no army left over for Jehoahaz except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them as the dust at threshing.

¹⁹ _⌊From_⌋* six troubles he will deliver you, and in seven evil shall not touch you.

³ These ten times you* have disgraced me; you* are not ashamed that you* have attacked* me.

¹⁶ There are six things Yahweh hates, and seven things are abominations of his soul:*

² Divide your share in seven or in eight, for you do not know what disaster will happen on the earth.

⁸ For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin, and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.

⁴ For before the boy knows to call 'my father' and 'my mother,' one will carry away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria in the presence of the king of Assyria."

¹ An oracle of Damascus:
"Look! Damascus will cease being a city and will become a heap of ruins. ² The cities of Aroer will be deserted;* they will be for the flocks, and they will lie down and _⌊no one will frighten_⌋* them. ³ And the fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the children of Israel,"
_⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh of hosts.

¹⁵ Look! I will make you into a new sharp threshing sledge, _⌊with_⌋* sharp edges. You shall thresh and crush the mountains, and you shall make the hills like chaff.

²³ Concerning Damascus:
"Hamath and Arpad are ashamed, for they have heard bad news; they melt. There is concern in the sea. It is not able to keep quiet. ²⁴ Damascus has grown slack. She has turned away to flee and panic. Anxiety has seized her, and labor pains have grasped her, like a woman in labor. ²⁵ How the city of praise has not been abandoned! The city of my joy! ²⁶ _⌊Therefore_⌋* her young men will fall in her public squares, and all _⌊the soldiers_⌋* will perish in that day," _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh of hosts. ²⁷ "And I will kindle a fire at the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Ben-hadad."

⁶ Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Gaza and for four I will not revoke the punishment,* because they exiled a whole community, handing them over to Edom!

⁹ Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Tyre and for four I will not revoke the punishment,* because they delivered up a whole community to Edom and they did not remember the covenant of brotherhood!

¹¹ Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Edom and for four I will not revoke the punishment,* because he pursued his brother with the sword! He stifled his compassion and his anger tore them apart _⌊continually_⌋,* and he kept his rage forever.

¹³ Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Ammon and for four I will not revoke the punishment,* because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory!

¹ Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Moab and for four I will not revoke the punishment,* because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.

⁴ Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke the punishment,* because they have rejected the law of Yahweh and have not kept his rules, and their lies have led them astray, _⌊after which their ancestors walked_⌋!*

⁶ Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not revoke the punishment,* because they sell the righteous for money and the poor for a pair of sandals!

¹ An oracle. The word of Yahweh is against the land of Hadrach,
and Damascus is its resting place. For to Yahweh belongs the eye of humankind,* and all the tribes of Israel,