Amos 1:3

New American Bible - revised edition

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and now four— I will not take it back— Because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron,

Cross References

1 Kings 19:17

Anyone who escapes the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill. Anyone who escapes the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.

2 Kings 13:3

The Lord was angry with Israel and for a long time gave them into the power of Hazael, king of Aram, and of Ben-hadad, son of Hazael.

2 Kings 13:7

No army was left to Jehoahaz, except fifty horses with ten chariots and ten thousand foot soldiers, since the king of Aram had destroyed them and trampled them like dust.

2 Kings 16:9

The king of Assyria listened to him and moved against Damascus, captured it, deported its inhabitants to Kir, and put Rezin to death.

2 Kings 8:12

and Hazael asked, “Why are you weeping, my lord?” Elisha replied, “Because I know the evil that you will inflict upon the Israelites. You will burn their fortresses, you will slay their youth with the sword, you will dash their little children to pieces, you will rip open their pregnant women.”

Job 19:3

These ten times you have humiliated me, have assailed me without shame!

Job 5:19

Out of six troubles he will deliver you, and at the seventh no evil shall touch you.

Proverbs 6:16

There are six things the Lord hates, yes, seven are an abomination to him;

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Make seven, or even eight portions; you know not what misfortune may come upon the earth.

Isaiah 28:27

For caraway is not threshed with a sledge, nor does a cartwheel roll over cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a staff, and cumin with a rod.

Isaiah 41:15

I will make of you a threshing sledge, sharp, new, full of teeth, To thresh the mountains and crush them, to make the hills like chaff.

Isaiah 7:16

for before the child learns to reject evil and choose good, the land of those two kings whom you dread shall be deserted.

Isaiah 7:8

The head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin;

Isaiah 8:4

for before the child learns to say, “My father, my mother,” the wealth of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria shall be carried off by the king of Assyria. The Choice: The Lord or Assyria.

Amos 1:11

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and now four— I will not take it back— Because he pursued his brother with the sword, suppressing all pity, Persisting in his anger, his wrath raging without end,

Amos 1:13

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of the Ammonites, and now four— I will not take it back— Because they ripped open pregnant women in Gilead, in order to extend their territory,

Amos 1:6

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and now four— I will not take it back— Because they exiled an entire population, handing them over to Edom,

Amos 1:9

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and now four— I will not take it back— Because they handed over an entire population to Edom, and did not remember their covenant of brotherhood,

Amos 2:1

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and now four— I will not take it back— Because he burned to ashes the bones of Edom’s king,

Amos 2:4

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and now four— I will not take it back— Because they spurned the instruction of the Lord, and did not keep his statutes; Because the lies which their ancestors followed have led them astray,

Amos 2:6

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and now four— I will not take it back— Because they hand over the just for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals;

Zechariah 9:1

An oracle: the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach, and Damascus is its destination, For the cities of Aram are the Lord’s, as are all the tribes of Israel.

Zechariah 9:2

Hamath also on its border, Tyre too, and Sidon, no matter how clever they be.