Where the water of one is diffusing life and verdure over the surface, another branch is collecting a new supply. In former days these extended over the whole plain to the lakes, thus irrigating the fields and gardens in every part of it., Damascus then was, of old, famed for its beauty. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of theLordyour God. threshedReverso Context-: Rock threshing floors: seeds were threshed there with the help of animals. 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. 1 Kings 9:13the brotherhood between Hiram of Tyre and Solomon of Israel). NETBible: Amos 1:3 Not only would the kingdom of Aram fall, and its rulers have their authority crushed, its people would be conquered and taken into exile by its conquerors. Yahweh says, according to Amos, the he will not revoke the punishment such sins deserve. And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full., Genesis 2:15 TheLordGod took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.Exodus 23:10-11 For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. Meonothai fathered Ophrah; and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-harashim, so-called because they were craftsmen. God authorized human government in Genesis, where He said, "Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood . K (LogOut/ Yet this was as nothing. S 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. Amos 1:3 - NIV - This is what the - Christianity : The waters of the river were spread over the surface of the soil in the fields and gardens; underneath, other canals were tunnelled to collect the superfluous water which percolates the soil, or from little fountains and springs below. This was usually done by spreading the stalks of grain several inches deep on a smooth flat area that was on a high piece of ground open to the wind. They enslaved their inhabitants and sold them to Edom. Again, give a portion to seven, and also to eight Ecclesiastes 11:2. Gilead is here doubtless to be taken in its widest sense, including all the possessions of Israel, east of Jordan, as, in the account of Hazaels conquests, all the land of Gilead 2 Kings 10:32-33 is explained to mean, all which was ever given to the two tribes and a half, and to include Gilead proper, as distinct from Basan. Mail (will not be published) __('(required)'). Sin and punishment are by a great law of God bound together. Hebrew Names Version. 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. Animals have to be fed, crops have to be watered and fertilized, and it doesnt matter how the farmer feels on that particular day. Damascus was already the chief city, through its relation to which alone Hobah was known. It includes: Complete but concise outlines of every Old Testament book A . This likely refers to the entire kingdom of Aram, of which Damascus was the capital. Blog, A {ime fie fie tke the fhe ike fhe hours with the bible; or, the scriptures in the light of modern discovery and knowledge. 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. 2 Kings 10:32,33 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel; . nothing big cus i Still hate to write. (LogOut/ Amos specifically notes one defining cultural sin. Isaiah 8:4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. What does Amos 1:3 mean? | BibleRef.com Randall. Old Testament II Final Flashcards | Quizlet I am enjoying the study and appreciate your effort and willingness to share. Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet? 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. Corn takes anywhere from 90 to 100 days to be ready to be harvested. The day-to-day chores, tasks, and attention required to the smallest details made agriculture an unforgettably rich metaphor for Jesus and His teachings. 24:22) with stone or metal teeth embedded in the bottom side were dragged over the grain by these animals. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai. 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. See the passionate exclamation of Ulysses, in the storm, Odyss., lib. In this case, God Himself is making the judgement. Through studying this beautiful exposition on each of these eight books, you will gain understanding of the historical events and the countless precious spiritual applications and prophetic utterances that apply to the church today. Tyre is condemned for the same sin as Gazathe deportation and sale of whole communities (cf. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.Genesis 1:1-31 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. A threshing sledge was made of wooden boards embedded with sharp stones or iron teeth. Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release. The two on the northern side water Salahiyeh at the foot of the hills about a mile from the city, and then irrigate the higher portions of the plain to the distance of nearly twenty miles. The smart farmer knows when the moment is ready. For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four. A Disciple Seeking to Follow Jesus into the World for the Sake of the World to the Glory of God, because they carried into exile a whole people to deliver them up to Edom (1:6), because they delivered up a whole people to Edom and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood. (1:9), Amos 1:3-10 Amos Addresses Damascus, Gaza and Tyre, Theological Hermeneutics IV Exploring the Story, Thomas Flemings Disease in the Public Mind, Jesus Suffers: Garden, Via Dolorosa, and Cross, Jesus Serves: Temple, Template, and Table, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron (1:3). which leads to the comprise of and ingratiation of the Nations being the primary benefactor of the poor and the marginalized of our capitalistic morality. This rhetorical pattern stresses the sin and the consequence. Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. 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 . And he told them many things in parables, saying: A sower went out to sow. VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. 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. De Dieu refers it to the earthquake before mentioned, that God would not turn away that, but cause it to come, as he had foretold, for the transgressions of these, and other nations after spoken of; but rather it refers to Damascus; and so some render it, "I will not turn", or "convert it"; to repentance, and so to my mercy; but leave it in its sins, and to my just judgments. 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. T 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. : The whole plain is filled with these singular aqueducts, some of them running for 2 or 3 miles underground. Its whole plain was intersected with canals, and tunneled below. Benhadad and Hazael encouraged only marauding expeditions against Israel during the 14 years of Ahaziah and Jehoram. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window), Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window), Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window). And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. This judgment includes the peoples of this region (probably the Biqah Valley) which was likely also a part of the kingdom of Aram. Both instruments are alluded to in the O.T. The Threshing Sledge - Br. David Allen - SSJE Damascus and Samaria (Israel) fought over this area for a hundred years or more. The course of the prophecy convicted them, as the things written in Holy Scripture for our ensamples convict Christians. ABUNDANCE OR JUDGMENT. Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear., 2 Chronicles 24:1-26:23 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. The names Hazael and Ben-hadad, two kings of Aram, are also known from 2 Kings 8. They cover an area at last 25 (or 30) miles in circuit, and make the environs an earthly Paradise. Whence the Arabs said, If there is a garden of Eden on earth, it is Damascus; and if in heaven, Damascus is like it on earth. But this its beauty was also its strength. You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. And since they had no root, they withered away. Thus saith the . These orchards are a most exceeding defense; for from the density of the trees and the narrowness of the ways, it seemed difficult and almost impossible to approach the city on that side. Even to this day it is said, The true defense of Damascus consists in its gardens, which, forming a forest of fruit-trees and a labyrinth of hedges, walls and ditches, for more than 7 leagues in circumference, would present no small impediment to a Mussulman enemy.. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. 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. If Amoss preaching bears witness to his insistence that nations need to acknowledge their sin, should not our preaching do the same? The authority of Aram will end here as well. . "because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron" (1:3) "because they carried into exile a whole people to deliver them up to Edom" (1:6) "because they delivered up a whole people to Edom and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood." (1:9) 1. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. P The Barada (the cold) having joined the Fijeh, (the traditional Pharpar, a name which well designates its tumultuous course ), runs on the north of, and through the city, and then chiefly into the central of the three lakes, the Bahret-el-kibliyeh, (the south lake;) thence, it is supposed, but in part also directly, into the Bahret-esh-Shurkiyeh (the east lake ). Deuteronomy 4:24 says that God is a consuming fire. 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. 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. v., ver. 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. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt: You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy! He, having carried war against David, king of Judaea, and disputed with him in many battles, and that finally at the Euaphrates where he was defeated, had the character of a most eminent king for prowess and valor. 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; Stated differently, the cities/nations would not be judged merely because of one transgression or even two. Conclusion: The Lord God has spoken (not always present). Such atrocities would not be unknown in the ancient world. 1 Samuel 27:8-12). Publisher: OpenBible.info. Matthew 13:18 Hear then the parable of the sower:Ruth 2:17 So she gleaned in the field until evening. C Nature takes its own time. Only one sin is identified even though many others are presumed (three, even four). David had had, for some cause unexplained by Holy Scripture, to inflict it on the Ammonites 2 Samuel 12:31; 1 Chronicles 20:3. Joel 3:4-8; Ezekiel 27:13). The name Damascus probably betokened the strenuous, energetic character of its founder. In pagan poetry also, as a trace of a mystery which they had forgotten, three is a sacred whole; from where thrice and fourfold blessed stands among them for something exceeding even a full and perfect blessing, a super-abundance of blessings. The city of Damascus was called under judgment because that nation "threshed Gilead with implements of iron" (Amos 1:3) or behaved with unnecessary cruelty against a conquered . Amos 1:3 Commentaries: Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of Here are the oxen for the burnt offering and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. The inclusion of the valley of Aven as well as Beth-Eden together with Damascus might indicate the entire kingdom of Aram. Not the ethics and the morality of the fathers community. H And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to theLord. 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. These, registered by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and marked them for destruction to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks., Deuteronomy 8:1-20 The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that theLordswore to give to your fathers. Because of the Arameans war crimes, the LORD said He would send fire upon the house of Hazael and it would consume the citadels ofBen-hadad. I will not turn away the punishment thereof. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. As such, it attracted the Arameans who were one of the most frequent enemies of Israel. God also said He will cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven. And consider today (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline of theLordyour God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm, his signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land, and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued after you, and how theLordhas destroyed them to this day, and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place, , 1 Chronicles 4:38-41 These mentioned by name were princes in their clans, and their fathers houses increased greatly. Isaiah 41:15 Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff;Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.Genesis 1:11-12 And God said, Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth. And it was so. VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. As the sledge was pulled over the threshing floor the stones or iron teeth would separate the grain from the stalks. 1 Kings 19:17 And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay. The community or people to which Amos refers is Judah. The work is never done. So each individual sinner, who dies impenitent, will be punished for all which, in his whole life, he did or became, contrary to the law of God. Literally, the text says they shut up the whole into captivity. The Philistines assaulted surrounding communities. because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. His mothers name was Zibiah of Beersheba. 4 n So I will send a fire upon the house of o Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of o Ben-hadad. Amos does not express it. It is worth noting that each of the oracles begins with the formula For three transgressions of [name of city or state], even for four, though Amos only listed one transgression for each nation, except for Israel which received all four of them (Amos 2:616). You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. The city named Kir was the place where the Arameans originally lived (Amos 9:7), although its precise location is unknown. Change). 3 This is what the LORD says: "For three sins of Damascus, even for four, I will not relent. God stated that He would also break the gate bar of Damascus. 2 Kings 13:7 for an example). Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. 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. The other things cannot be satisfied; the fourth, fire, grows fiercer by being fed. At this time, Damascus was probably, like ourselves, a rich, commercial, as well as warlike, but not as yet a manufacturing (see the note at Amos 3:12) nation. Joel 3:4-8). Here, Damascus represents the entire nation of Aram (or Syria). , John 4:35 Do you not say, There are yet four months, then comes the harvest? : A native, Adad, having gained great power, became king of Damascus and the rest of Syria, except Phoenicia. as the Targum; this country lay beyond Jordan, and was inhabited by the Reubenites and Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh; who were used in a very cruel manner, by Hazael king of Syria, as was foretold by Elisha, 2 Kings 7:12; not literally, as in 2 Samuel 12:31; but by him they were beat, oppressed, and crushed, as the grain of the threshingfloor; which used to be threshed out by means of a wooden instrument stuck with iron teeth, the top of which was filled with stones to press it down, and so drawn to and fro over the sheaves of corn, by which means it was beaten out, to which the allusion is here; See Gill on 1 Corinthians 9:9. So does the wisest of us in living. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Gaza sent whole communities into exile to Edom. Chapter 28: Syria (1:3-5) - Minor Prophets 2