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Amos 1:3-5
Evangelical Heritage Version

Judgment Against Aram

3 This is what the Lord says:
    Because of three sins[a] of Damascus,
    because of four, I will not hold back judgment,
    because they cut up Gilead with iron threshing boards.[b]
4 So I will send fire against the house of Hazael,
    and it will consume the fortresses of Ben Hadad.
5 I will break the bars of the gates of Damascus,
    and I will cut off the one seated in the Valley of Aven,
    and the one who holds a scepter in Beth Eden.[c]
    So the people of Aram will go into exile toward Kir.[d]
    The Lord has spoken.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 1:3 Or crimes
  2. Amos 1:3 A threshing board or threshing sledge is similar to a toboggan, but it has iron teeth protruding from the bottom. It is dragged over piles of grain to cut up the straw and release the kernels of grain.
  3. Amos 1:5 Valley of Aven and Beth Eden mean Valley of Wickedness and House of Pleasure. They may be figurative names for the region around Damascus.
  4. Amos 1:5 The location of Kir is unknown. It probably lies far to the north or east.
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