Mail (will not be published) __('(required)'). f tribe of Manasseh returned to go into the country of Gilead, to the land of their possessions Joshua 22:9. The bar would secure the gate or the door to prevent outsiders from entering to hurt the residents of the city. , Proverbs 12:11 Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.Isaiah 65:22-24 They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. What Does the Bible Say About A Man Providing For His Family? The power and strength of Damascus would be broken. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 1:1). Soul-murder is worse than physical murder, and requires more devilish art. For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four. Success in life requires hard work. Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth, when there is no trap for it? For the prophet had no mission to them; he only declares to Israel the ground of the visitation which was to come upon them. 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. They sent them into captivity (or exile). It is mentioned in the Proverbs, as a capital punishment Proverbs 20:26; and is alluded to as such by Isaiah Isaiah 28:28. It was no part of the territory assigned to Israel, nor was it molested by them. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. American Standard Version Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron. Y 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. The difference is that Amos adds a further comment on the transgression: they did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.. Does a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? 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. On a daily basis, relationships have to be enhanced. January 9, 2013 at 8:31 am and is filed under Biblical Texts. And you shall remember the whole way that theLordyour God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. International ethics are important to Amos. With a small company of men he defeated a large army of Judah 2 Chronicles 24:23-24. This judgment includes the peoples of this region (probably the Biqah Valley) which was likely also a part of the kingdom of Aram. because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. 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. A threshing sledge was made of wooden boards embedded with sharp stones or iron teeth. God pictures Syria's cruelty toward Gilead (in northeast Israel) as a threshing sledge being run over His people. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty., Genesis 37:7 Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. OpenBible.info and four times who were slain, In Atreus' cause, upon the Trojan plain.". This is Judahs traditional enemy on its southwest border. 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. [5] I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and him that holds the scepter from Beth-eden; 4 tn Heb "they threshed [or "trampled down"] Gilead with sharp iron implements" (NASB similar). 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. Gaza sent whole communities into exile to Edom. Judging, probably, of Davids defensive conquests by its own policy, it joined the other Syrians who attacked David, was subdued, garrisoned, and became tributary 2 Samuel 8:5-6. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.Deuteronomy 28:8 says, The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. T Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. For this they will be judged by God. On some days, the only thing the farmer can do is sit, wait, and hope for the best. In similar fashion, Damascus had threshed Gilead with their instruments of war. because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. Tagged: Amos, Amos 1:3-5, Amos 1:6-8, Amos 1:9-10, Ethics, Nations, Violence. Because she threshed Gilead with sledges having iron teeth, English Standard Version 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. I will not turn away the punishment thereof - Literally, I will not turn it back. What was this, which God would not turn back? Does he continually open and harrow his ground?Ecclesiastes 5:9 But this is gain for a land in every way: a king committed to cultivated fields., Hosea 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek theLord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.Micah 4:1-4 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of theLordshall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it, and many nations shall come, and say: Come, let us go up to the mountain of theLord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of theLordfrom Jerusalem. Luke 9:23 says, Then he said to them all: Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. As Christians, we have to be loving, faithful, prayerful, diligent, patient, forgiving, and merciful at all times. For we are Gods fellow workers. Proud member Damascus (Syria, also called Aram) threshed Gilead. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. . Without the Barada, says Porter, the city could not exist, and the plain would be a parched desert; but now aqueducts intersect every quarter, and fountains sparkle in almost every dwelling, while innumerable canals extend their ramifications over the vast plain, clothing it with verdure and beauty. , John 4:35 Do you not say, There are yet four months, then comes the harvest? For a long time, these stories worked without much thought or explanation. Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. Because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron - The instrument, Jerome relates here, was a sort of wain, rolling on iron wheels beneath, set with teeth; so that it both threshed out the grain and bruised the straw and cut it in pieces, as food for the cattle, for lack of hay. A similar instrument, called by nearly the same name, is still in use in Syria and Egypt. P The farmer has something to do every day. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten. 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: . 1:93. 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 . Its white buildings, embedded in the deep green of its engirdling orchards, were like diamonds encircled by emeralds. A heavy wooden plank, 2 or 3 feet by 5 or 6 feet, with sharp spikes on the bottom, when oxen pulled it over a grain field the grain was separated from stalks and weeds. 2 Kings 8:12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? 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 . . So Seneca in Hippolyt., Act. Specially shod animals walked around on the stalks until the grain separated from the hulls. 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; Amos used the imagery of threshing to convey the damage wrought by Damascus upon the inhabitants of Gilead. If Amoss preaching bears witness to his insistence that nations need to acknowledge their sin, should not our preaching do the same? And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. Kings who entered treaties with each other typically thought of themselves as brothers (cf. Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. And he told them many things in parables, saying: A sower went out to sow. john mark 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. 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. God promised to make His people into a new threshing sledge with sharp teeth and use them to bring judgment on those who oppress the godly (Is. Amos specifically notes one defining cultural sin. , ' <-144 , . No, he does not thresh it forever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it.Matthew 13:3-8 And he told them many things in parables, saying: A sower went out to sow. - 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 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. Damascus, Gaza and Tyrethree important cities in the region of Israel and Judahare called to account for their actions by a shepherd from Judah. This is what the LORD says: "For three sins of Damascus, even for four, I will not relent. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. The punishment is first denounced upon their enemies, and that, for their sins, directly or indirectly, against themselves, and God in them. Of old it was said, the Chrysorrhoas (the Barada) is nearly expended in artificial channels.: Damascus is fertile through drinking up the Chrysorrhoas by irrigation. Fourteen names of its canals are still given; and while it has been common to select 7 or 8 chief canals, the whole have been counted up even to 70. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. "O thrice and four times happy were the men. 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. 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. It is a probable conjecture that Jehu, by his political submission to Assyria, drew on himself the calamities which Elisha foretold. 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. Meonothai fathered Ophrah; and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-harashim, so-called because they were craftsmen. 4 So I will send a fire on the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad. The Arameans have crushed [the people of] Gilead with iron-spiked threshing sledges. "O thrice and four times, that is, very often, a finite number for an infinite." The name of his servant Eliezer my God is help, implies that at this time too the servant was a worshiper of the One God. of 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. The threshing sledge is also an allegory. 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. Not naming it, he leaves it the rather to be conceived of by the mind, as something which had been of old coming upon them to overwhelm them, which God had long stayed back, but which, since He would now stay it no longer, would burst in, with the more terrific and overwhelming might, because it had been restrained before. The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Damascus for three crimes, even four, because they threshed Gilead with iron sledges. In unserem Vergleich haben wir die unterschiedlichsten 70413 lego am Markt unter die Lupe genommen und die wichtigsten Eigenschaften, die Kostenstruktur und die Bewertungen der Kunden abgewogen. Gods mercy holds back the punishment long, allowing only some slight tokens of His displeasure to show themselves, that the sinful soul or people may not be unwarned. The LORD was the one who gave His words to His prophet. We are encouraged to Work Hard and keep ourselves busy. The city named Kir was the place where the Arameans originally lived (Amos 9:7), although its precise location is unknown. 1. "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. For each oracle, Amos confirmed his prophetic call with the statement Thus says the LORD (Am. Sin and punishment are by a great law of God bound together. with threshing sledges of iron. Israel and Tyre had cooperated with each other from the time of David and Solomon, and that cooperation or treaty-relationship probably continued throughout the existence of the northern kingdom. 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; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. The LORD pronounces judgment on the inhabitants of Damascus because they slaughtered the people of Gilead. No wonder Jesus talked so much about farming. Benhadad at once broke his league with Baasha at the request of Asa in his later mistrustful days 1 Chronicles 16:2-7, and turned against Baasha (1 Chronicles 16:2-7 and 1 Kings 15:20). Fire is used symbolically for Gods judgment, which would fall on the house of Hazael and the citadels of Ben-hadad. Proverb: Because of the three transgressions of and because of four, I will not cause (him/it) to return.. Weeds have to be removed, the land watered, and fertilizer added. 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. See the passionate exclamation of Ulysses, in the storm, Odyss., lib. From Omri also Benhadad I took cities and extorted streets, probably a Damascus quarter, in Samaria itself 1 Kings 20:34. Benhadad appears to have acted on the offensive, in alliance with the kings of the Hittites, the Hamathites and Phoenicians; Hazael was attacked alone, driven to take refuge in Anti-libanus, and probably became tributary. Farmers work throughout the year, regardless of the weather. , 1 Chronicles 4:10-41 Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain! And God granted what he asked. a aq as _ \\ \ \ \ ss ce ake i arthur s. phelps his booke god give him grace. We have detected that you are using extensions to block ads. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson. "They have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron." Gilead was a part of Israel on the eastern side of the Jordan river. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL N 4 n So I will send a fire upon the house of o Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of o Ben-hadad. 3 Thus says the Lord: "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, Hebrew I will not . Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause. Chapter Parallel. It is possible that Syrians ran over peoplemen, women, and childrenwith these boards. If this promise was fulfilled, Ramoth-Gilead must have been lost to Syria at an earlier period, since, three years afterward, Ahab perished in an attempt, by aid of Jehoshaphat, against the counsels of God, to recover it 2 Kings 7:6. . For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four. God stated that He would also break the gate bar of Damascus. It is likely that the formula was used as a rhetorical device to emphasize the fact that the cities or nations committed crime after crime, thus deserving Gods judgment. In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good., Isaiah 32:20 Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.Matthew 6:26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Vv. O This handy resource allows the reader to quickly summarize or review all the pertinent details about any Old Testament book. 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. . Because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron - The instrument, Jerome relates here, was "a sort of wain, rolling on iron wheels beneath, set with teeth; so that it both threshed out the grain and bruised the straw and cut it in pieces, as food for the cattle, for lack of hay." A similar instrument, called by nearly . " You shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff. 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. (LogOut/ Israel heard and readily believed Gods judgments upon others. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely., Isaiah 29:17 Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?Deuteronomy 22:9-10 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. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. , Deuteronomy 11:1-32 You shall therefore love theLordyour God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always. Holman Old Testament Commentary: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah by Trent Butler. See, I give the oxen for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for the wood and the wheat for a grain offering; I give it all., Isaiah 3:15 What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor? declares the LordGodof hosts.Proverbs 21:1 The kings heart is a stream of water in the hand of theLord; he turns it wherever he will.Isaiah 17:13 The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.Psalm 126:1-6 A Song of Ascents.
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