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Amo 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:

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

For		Amo 1:6,9,11,13; Amo 2:1,4,6; Job 5:19; Job 19:3; Pro 6:16; Ecc 11:2
Damascus		Isa 7:8; Isa 8:4; Isa 17:1; Jer 49:23-27; Zec 9:1
and for four		or, yea, for four
turn away the punishment thereof		or, convert it, or, let it be quiet, and so Amo 6,9, etc.
because		1Ki 19:17; 2Ki 8:12; 2Ki 10:32,33; 2Ki 13:3,7; Isa 41:15

Correlating Passages

For

	Amo 1:6	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:
	Amo 1:9	Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:
	Amo 1:11	Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
	Amo 1:13	Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
	Amo 2:1	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:
	Amo 2:4	Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
	Amo 2:6	Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
	Job 5:19	He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
	Job 19:3	These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me.
	Pro 6:16	These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him:
	Ecc 11:2	Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

Damascus

	Isa 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.
	Isa 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.
	Isa 17:1	The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
	Jer 49:23	Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; [there is] sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
	Jer 49:24	Damascus is waxed feeble, [and] turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on [her]: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
	Jer 49:25	How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
	Jer 49:26	Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
	Jer 49:27	And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.
	Zec 9:1	The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus [shall be] the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, [shall be] toward the LORD.

turn away the punishment thereof

	Amo 6:1	Woe to them [that are] at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, [which are] named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
	Amo 6:2	Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: [be they] better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
	Amo 6:3	Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
	Amo 6:4	That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
	Amo 6:5	That chant to the sound of the viol, [and] invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
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because

	1Ki 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.
	2Ki 8:12	And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
	2Ki 10:32	In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
	2Ki 10:33	From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which [is] by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
	2Ki 13:3	And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all [their] days.
	2Ki 13:7	Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
	Isa 41:15	Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat [them] small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

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Scott, Thomas. "Amos 1:3," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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