, Leviticus 19:19 You shall keep my statutes. 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. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.Matthew 12:1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. This is Judahs traditional enemy on its southwest border. 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. In all that he does, he prospers.Hosea 6:3 Let us know; let us press on to know theLord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.Isaiah 5:24 Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of theLordof hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel., Luke 12:18 And he said, I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.Hosea 12:11 If there is iniquity in Gilead, they shall surely come to nothing: in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls; their altars also are like stone heaps on the furrows of the field.2 Corinthians 9:6 The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.Isaiah 32:2 Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land., Ruth 2:15 When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her.Jeremiah 4:11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,Jeremiah 9:22 Speak: Thus declares theLord, The dead bodies of men shall fall like dung upon the open field, like sheaves after the reaper, and none shall gather them.Isaiah 30:25 And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall., Job 29:23 They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.Leviticus 25:1-7 TheLordspoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to theLord. More than a Bible handbook but less than a commentary, Nelson's New Illustrated Old Testament Survey provides a section by section breakdown of issues and topics dealt with in the Hebrew Scriptures. The name Damascus probably betokened the strenuous, energetic character of its founder. For we are Gods fellow workers. 2 Kings 13:7 for an example). Weeds grow everywhere and all of the time. Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Mehir, who fathered Eshton. OpenBible.info Genesis 2:15 says, The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it., Agriculture is highly encouraged throughout the Scriptures. 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. Israel heard and readily believed Gods judgments upon others. Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet? He condemns forcibly removing populations from their homeland. Corn takes anywhere from 90 to 100 days to be ready to be harvested. Damascus was already the chief city, through its relation to which alone Hobah was known. 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 people. They are a good reminder of what is required from us every day of our own lives. v., ver. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.1 Kings 5:11 While Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, and 20,000 cors of beaten oil. He wept because he knew the evil that [Hazael] will do to the people of Israel. In particular, Hazael will set their fortresses on firekill their young men with the sword, dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their pregnant women (2 Kings 8:12). (LogOut/ We are encouraged to Work Hard and keep ourselves busy. Nature takes its own time. E Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. D Proverbs 20:4 says, The lazy man does not plow when the winter [planting] season arrives; So he begs at the [next] harvest and has nothing [to reap]. Likewise, Proverbs 21:5 says, The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty. Furthermore, Ecclesiastes 11:6 says, Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well. The Bible talks against laziness. "O thrice and four times, that is, very often, a finite number for an infinite." W Amos does not express it. God pictures Syria's cruelty toward Gilead (in northeast Israel) as a threshing sledge being run over His people. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. 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. because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. , Deuteronomy 11:1-32 You shall therefore love theLordyour God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always. The identification of the sin becomes the key element of the oracle itself with its subsequent consequence. 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 . Fire is used symbolically for Gods judgment, which would fall on the house of Hazael and the citadels of Ben-hadad. So I will send a fire on the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad. 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; . In that the prophet says, not, for the fourth, but for three transgressions and for four, he expresses at once, that God did not punish until the last sin, by which the iniquity of the sinful nation became full Genesis 15:16, and that, then, He punished for all, for the whole mass of sin described by the three, and for the fourth also. Are you not of more value than they?Isaiah 28:27 Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.Matthew 13:23 As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. This was apparently a common practice in that region (cf. The other things cannot be satisfied; the fourth, fire, grows fiercer by being fed. You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am theLord. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL These things - Job says, worketh God twice and thrice with man, to bring back his soul from the pit Job 33:29. So the Targum. I Kimchi thinks that this respects four particular seasons, in which Damascus, or the Syrians, evilly treated and distressed the people of Israel; first in the times of Baasha; then in the times of Ahab; a third time in the days of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu; and the fourth in the times of Ahaz; and then they were punished for them all: because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron; that is. Randall. sn Like threshing sledges with iron teeth. I am enjoying the study and appreciate your effort and willingness to share. 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. Here in Amos, we see that the people of Damascus rebelled against the LORD because they threshed Gilead with implements of sharp iron. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ). As such, patience is a required virtue for a farmer. The word transgression refers to acts of rebellion committed against someone in authority, such as when Israel rebelled against the house of David (1 Kgs. 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. I will break the gate-bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from . If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Whom hate devoured, and fraud, hard pressing on, And so the ancient oracle quoted by Pausanias Achaic., lib. V Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: Amos 1:6,9,11,13 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: , Amos 2:1,4,6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: . A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. Although God delegated authority to human governments to execute justice (Romans 13:4), He is still the ultimate judge. even for four in chapters 12? And God separated the light from the darkness. You cant speed that up. This rhetorical pattern stresses the sin and the consequence. On a daily basis, relationships have to be enhanced. 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. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of theLord. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am theLordyour God., Proverbs 3:10 Then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.Genesis 9:20 Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.Deuteronomy 23:24-25 If you go into your neighbors vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you shall not put any in your bag. So the handmaid which displaceth her mistress Proverbs 30:21-23 is more intolerable and overbearing than the others. 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. All these nations fall under the divine judgment because each has committed offenses against the holy God. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. . Conclusion: The Lord God has spoken (not always present). Only one sin is identified even though many others are presumed (three, even four). 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 . A man . You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. All rights reserved. Joash, king of Judah, bought him off, when advancing against Jerusalem, with everything of gold, consecrated or civil, in the temple or in his own treasures 2 Kings 12:18. 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. But there will be no poor among you; for theLordwill bless you in the land that theLordyour God is giving you for an inheritance to possess if only you will strictly obey the voice of theLordyour God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today. Five of these canals are led off from the river at different elevations, before it enters the plain. 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. Salem Media Group. 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. Literally, the text says they shut up the whole into captivity. The Philistines assaulted surrounding communities. 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. 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 . After this Joash decided to restore the house of theLord. The region known as Gilead, the Transjordan area of Israel, was claimed by Damascus as well as Ammon. Taught by the face of creation around them, where the course of every tiny rivulet, as it burst from the rocks, was marked by a rich luxuriance, the Damascenes of old availed themselves of the continual supply from the snows of Hermon or the heights of Anti-libanus, with a systematic diligence, of which, in our northern clime, as we have no need, so we have no idea. Hazael extended his conquests to Gath 2 Kings 12:17, intending probably to open a connecting line with Egypt. 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. The moral majesty of a king is obviously greater than the rest. Of the situation of this place, and the delightfulness of it; see Gill on Jeremiah 49:25; and of its founder, and the signification of its name; see Gill on Acts 9:2; to which may be added, that though Justin says it had its name from Damascus, a king of it before Abraham and Israel, whom he also makes kings of it; and Josephus would have Uz the son of Aram the founder of it, to which Bochart agrees; yet the Arabic writers ascribe the building of it to others; for the Arabs have a tradition, as Schultens says, that there were Canaanites anciently in Syria; for they talk of Dimashc the son of Canaan, who built the famous city of Damascus, and so it should seem to be called after his name; and Abulpharagius says, that Murkus or Murphus, as others call him, king of Palestine, built the city of Damascus twenty years before the birth of Abraham: from this place many things have their names, which continue with us to this day, as the "damask" rose, and the "damascene" plum, transplanted from the gardens that were about it, for which it was famous; and very probably the invention of the silk and linen called "damasks" owes its rise from hence. 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. 1:3, 6, 9, 11, 13; 2:1, 4, and 6). And he said: The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers. 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. 4 So I will send a fire on the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad. Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that theLordyour God may bless you in all the work of your hands., Deuteronomy 22:9 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.Deuteronomy 28:1-68 And if you faithfully obey the voice of theLordyour God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, theLordyour God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. Any crime committed against human beings is ultimately against the LORD because He is the sole creator. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.. What Does the Bible Say About Overcoming? Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. No art or labor was thought too great. They each follow the same rhetorical pattern. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. 41:15).The NKJV Study Bible. Here are the oxen for the burnt offering and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. The Syrians apparently used tools that were intended for harvesting crops and ran over people with them. I would like to bring this forward in how we hear Amos,as individuals in the kingdom of THE FATHERS NEW COVENANT RELATIONSHIP. The third, having gained the greatest power of all, seeking to repair the defeat of his grandfather, warring against the Jews, wasted what is now callcd Samaritis. They could not brook a defeat, which they had brought upon themselves. It is still the capital of modern Syria today. 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! Yet this was as nothing. The inclusion of the valley of Aven as well as Beth-Eden together with Damascus might indicate the entire kingdom of Aram. Amos 1:3 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: : Strong's LIT Online Bible Project Blog, A Theme: Contempt by Vault9. nothing big cus i Still hate to write. "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. a aq as _ \\ \ \ \ ss ce ake i arthur s. phelps his booke god give him grace. The work has to be done. On the words, O terque quaterque, Servius makes this remark, "Hoc est saepias; finitus numerous pro infinito." , John 4:35 Do you not say, There are yet four months, then comes the harvest? A threshing board, also known as threshing sledge, is an obsolete agricultural implement used to separate cereals from their straw; that is, to thresh.It is a thick board, made with a variety of slats, with a shape between rectangular and trapezoidal, with the frontal part somewhat narrower and curved upward (like a sled or sledge) and whose bottom is covered with lithic flakes or razor-like . How then could it refuse to believe of itself, what it believed of others like itself? Chapter Parallel. 16:9). Nor will they say, Look, here it is! or There! for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.. 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. The city of Gilead was an Israelite region located on the eastern side of the Jordan River, just south of Damascus. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. Tyre is condemned for the same sin as Gazathe deportation and sale of whole communities (cf. " (Cf. Agriculture is the broad term for everything that goes into growing crops and raising animals, to provide food and materials that people can use and enjoy. International ethics are important to Amos. For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four - These expressions of three and four, so often repeated in this chapter, mean repetition, abundance, and any thing that goes towards excess. 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. Yahweh says, according to Amos, the he will not revoke the punishment such sins deserve. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Neglect a relationship and just like a field left unplowed, weeds will overrun everything and whatever was planted will die. "Thrice happy Greeks! At the time of our era, the name of Abraham was still held in honor in the country of Damascus; a village was named from him Abrahams dwelling; and a native historian Nicolas said, that he reigned in Damascus on his way from the country beyond Babylon to Canaan. Its white buildings, embedded in the deep green of its engirdling orchards, were like diamonds encircled by emeralds. For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four. It was at that time probably a subordinate power, whether on the ground of the personal eminence of Hadadezer king of Zobah, or any other. .--Rather, will not turn it back--i.e., the sore judgment I have purposed. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson. Animals have to be fed, crops have to be watered and fertilized, and it doesnt matter how the farmer feels on that particular day. This is what the LORD says: 'For three sins of Damascus, even for four, I will not relent. Again, give a portion to seven, and also to eight Ecclesiastes 11:2. And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither. Cite this page: Editor: Stephen Smith. Tyre also sent whole communities into slavery. It begins with their most oppressive enemy, Syria; then Philistia, the old and ceaseless, although less powerful, enemy; then Tyre, not an oppressor, as these, yet violating a relation which they had not, the bonds of a former friendship and covenant; malicious also and hardhearted through covetousness. 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; R F Likewise, the unexamined life soon becomes useless for service in the kingdom. Q Am). Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Mehir, who fathered Eshton. So in other places, where the like form of words occurs, the added number is one beyond, and mostly relates to something greater than all the rest. When the Jews killed the Son, there, came on them all the righteous bloodshed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias Matthew 23:35-36; Luke 11:50-51.