Today, more and more people are moving away from rural areas where farming is highly practiced and into cities characterized by industrialization. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. Which words Virgil translates, and puts in the mouth of his hero in similar circumstances, Aen. The expression one who holds the scepter is a figurative way of talking about someone who occupies a royal position. These things - Job says, worketh God twice and thrice with man, to bring back his soul from the pit Job 33:29. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, for three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron, I will not turn away the punishment thereof -, Because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron -, For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four -, , . After he is created by God, he is placed in charge of the Garden of Eden. , Deuteronomy 22:10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.Hebrews 6:7 For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.Deuteronomy 22:9-11 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. In the days of Jehu, Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel from Jordan eastward; all the land of Gilead, the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites, from Arorer which is by the River Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan 2 Kings 10:32-33; in those of Jehoahaz, Jehus son, he oppressed them, 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 2 Kings 13:7. (LogOut/ 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. Seldom, said pagan experience, hath punishment with lingering foot parted with the miscreant, advancing before.. Revised Standard Version w/ Apocrypha. If Amoss preaching bears witness to his insistence that nations need to acknowledge their sin, should not our preaching do the same? 1:1). The city of Gilead was an Israelite region located on the eastern side of the Jordan River, just south of Damascus. This likely refers to the entire kingdom of Aram, of which Damascus was the capital. Hazael probably became the instrument of God in chastening Israel, while he was avenging Jehus submission to a power whom he dreaded and from whom he had suffered. Job 5:19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. For we are Gods fellow workers. Corn takes anywhere from 90 to 100 days to be ready to be harvested. 16:9). They are a good reminder of what is required from us every day of our own lives. 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. And God saw that the light was good. God is longsuffering and ready to forgive; but when the sinner finally becomes a vessel of wrath Romans 9:22, He punishes all the earlier sins, which, for the time, He passed by. Tagged: Amos, Amos 1:3-5, Amos 1:6-8, Amos 1:9-10, Ethics, Nations, Violence. Restore our fortunes, OLord, like streams in the Negeb! The name Damascus probably betokened the strenuous, energetic character of its founder. So Seneca in Hippolyt., Act. A threshing sledge was made of wooden boards embedded with sharp stones or iron teeth. nothing big cus i Still hate to write. And he told them many things in parables, saying: A sower went out to sow. No, he does not thresh it forever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it.Matthew 13:3-8 And he told them many things in parables, saying: A sower went out to sow. 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. So, He shall deliver thee in six troubles; yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee Job 5:19. Change but the name, the tale is told of thee, was a pagan saying which has almost passed into a proverb. They beat down my people in Gilead as grain is threshed with iron sledges. and four times who were slain, In Atreus' cause, upon the Trojan plain.". 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. Publisher: OpenBible.info. Deeper sins bring deeper damnation at the last. Animals have to be fed, crops have to be watered and fertilized, and it doesnt matter how the farmer feels on that particular day. These are the men of Recah. 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. So the Targum. What Does the Bible Say About Overcoming? Amoss prophecy concerning Damascus was probably fulfilled in 732 BC when the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III captured the city, weakening it for the rest of the Old Testament period (2 Kgs. On the schism of the ten tribes, the hostility of Damascus was concentrated against Israel who lay next to them. Tyre was an important commercial center in the Ancient Near East (cf. Thus saith the . 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. If they who sinned without law, perished without law Romans 2:12, how much more should they who have sinned in the law, be judged by the law. Gods judgments rolled round like a thunder-cloud, passing from land to land, giving warning of their approach, at last to gather and center on Israel itself, except it repent. The course of the prophecy convicted them, as the things written in Holy Scripture for our ensamples convict Christians. I will break the gate-bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir, says the Lord. because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. 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. Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. Publication date: Jun 3, 2010. 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). with threshing sledges of iron. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. [5] I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and him that holds the scepter from Beth-eden; Genesis 8:22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.Isaiah 9:3 You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.Deuteronomy 11:14 He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.Zechariah 10:1 Ask rain from theLordin the season of the spring rain, from theLordwho makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.2 Samuel 24:22 Then Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. 4 n So I will send a fire upon the house of o Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of o Ben-hadad. Genesis 1:11 says, Then God said, Let the land produce vegetation:seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds. And it was so. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, Genesis 1:12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. 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. Sin adds to sin, out of which it grows; it does not overshadow the former sins, it does not obliterate them, but increases the mass of guilt, which God punishes. E VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. Any crime committed against human beings is ultimately against the LORD because He is the sole creator. Before this, Scripture speaks of the people only of Damascus, not of their kings. His mothers name was Zibiah of Beersheba. Sie suchen nach einem 70413 lego, das Ihren Ansprchen gerecht wird? 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; . 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. G Deuteronomy 4:24 says that God is a consuming fire. Adam, the first human in the Bible, is also the first farmer. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. J Frequently threshing sledges (28:27) made of wood (2 Sam. The river, says William of Tyre, having abundant water, supplies orchards on both banks, thick-set with fruit-trees, and flows eastward by the city wall. Fire is used symbolically for Gods judgment, which would fall on the house of Hazael and the citadels of Ben-hadad. For there was no other enemy, from whom Syria had to be delivered. Subsequently to that retreat from Samaria, he even lost Ramoth 2 Kings 9:14-15 to Jehoram after a battle before it 2 Kings 8:29, in which Jehoram was wounded. In this section, the divine message concerns Damascus. 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. The work has to be done. Its white buildings, embedded in the deep green of its engirdling orchards, were like diamonds encircled by emeralds. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy! Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, but when the sun rose they were scorched. For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to theLord. The LORD was the one who gave His words to His prophet. 1 Kings 9:13the brotherhood between Hiram of Tyre and Solomon of Israel). From the standpoint of the synergistic point of view of Sanders,Dunn,and Wright. 4 So I will send a fire on the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad. Many people were farmers or at least very familiar with farming. They reach nearly to Anti-libanus westward, and extend on both sides of the Barada some miles eastward. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL
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. K It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. 4 tn Heb "they threshed [or "trampled down"] Gilead with sharp iron implements" (NASB similar). vii., c. 6: ; "Those men shall be thrice and four times happy.". The difference is that Amos adds a further comment on the transgression: they did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.. It is a probable conjecture that Jehu, by his political submission to Assyria, drew on himself the calamities which Elisha foretold. Elisha had foretold to Hazael his cruelty to Israel; Their strong holds thou wilt 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 2 Kings 8:12. It is here put for the whole country of Syria, and the inhabitants of it, for whose numerous transgressions, signified by "three" and "four", the Lord would not turn away his fury from them, justly raised by their sins; or the decree which he had passed in his own mind, and now made a declaration of, he would not revoke; or not inflict the punishment they had deserved, and he had threatened. Benhadad was, according to Assyrian inscriptions defeated thrice, Hazael twice, by Shalmanubar king of Assyria. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten. You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. I would like to bring this forward in how we hear Amos,as individuals in the kingdom of THE FATHERS NEW COVENANT RELATIONSHIP. , Proverbs 12:11 Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.Isaiah 65:22-24 They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. 1:3, 6, 9, 11, 13; 2:1, 4, and 6). 3 Thus says the Lord,For three transgressions of Damascus and for fourI will not revoke its punishment,Because they threshed Gilead with implements of sharp iron.4So I will send fire upon the house of HazaelAnd it will consume the citadels of Ben-hadad.5 I will also break the gate bar of Damascus,And cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven,And him who holds the scepter, from Beth-eden;So the people of Aram will go exiled to Kir,Says the LORD. As good people, by the grace of God, do, through each act done by aid of that grace, gain an addition to their everlasting reward, so the wicked, by each added sin, add to their damnation. I didnt know that thrashing tools might have been used in torturing people. , Matthew 13:1-10 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. The day-to-day chores, tasks, and attention required to the smallest details made agriculture an unforgettably rich metaphor for Jesus and His teachings. In similar fashion, Damascus had threshed Gilead with their instruments of war. 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. All these nations fall under the divine judgment because each has committed offenses against the holy God. Here are the oxen for the burnt offering and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. What then shall we say to these things? The word, yea, denotes, that the seventh is some heavier trouble, beyond all the rest, which would seem likely to break endurance. Any crime committed against human beings is ultimately against the LORD because He is the sole creator. 24:22) with stone or metal teeth embedded in the bottom side were dragged over the grain by these animals. 1:93. It includes: Complete but concise outlines of every Old Testament book A . Gaza represents the alliance of Philistine citiesAshdod, Ashkelon, and Ekron [Gath is not named here]in southwestern Palestine. at least and that is a COMPARED TO WHAT of The house of Hazael referred to any of the descendants of Hazael, including Ben-hadad. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. Its wealth, as a great emporium of transit-commerce, (as it is now) furnished it with sinews for war. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. 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. A threshing sledge was pulled by a large animal. Amos specifically notes one defining cultural sin. The inclusion of the valley of Aven as well as Beth-Eden together with Damascus might indicate the entire kingdom of Aram. 70413 lego - Der TOP-Favorit unserer Produkttester. Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause. And thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their threshing Gilead with sharp-pointed irons, - Youngs Literal Bible For thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Damascus, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they have threshed Gilead with sledges of iron. 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. 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 : The whole plain is filled with these singular aqueducts, some of them running for 2 or 3 miles underground. with threshing sledges of iron. 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. Lastly and nearest of all, it falls on Judah, who had the true worship of the true God among them, but despised it. 13:3, 2225). This is what the LORD says: 'For three sins of Damascus, even for four, I will not relent. Tyre is condemned for the same sin as Gazathe deportation and sale of whole communities (cf. The white wool Ezekiel 27:18, in which it traded with Tyre, implies the possession of a large outlying tract in the desert, where the sheep yield the whitest wool. Whichever is the case, Amos condemns Damascus for their violent aggression against Israel. Every day, just like the farmer, we must show up and do the work. 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. 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. Abijam was in league with the father of Benhadad 1 Kings 15:19. 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. Cite this page: Editor: Stephen Smith. Cows, like people, reproduce in about nine (9) months. P 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. f tribe of Manasseh returned to go into the country of Gilead, to the land of their possessions Joshua 22:9. Specially shod animals walked around on the stalks until the grain separated from the hulls. Why Did God Use Adams Rib to Create Eve? As such, it attracted the Arameans who were one of the most frequent enemies of Israel. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); 2023 John Mark Hicks. 2 Kings 8:12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? Why Did Jesus Talk So Much About Agriculture? 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. Kings who entered treaties with each other typically thought of themselves as brothers (cf. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.. David had had, for some cause unexplained by Holy Scripture, to inflict it on the Ammonites 2 Samuel 12:31; 1 Chronicles 20:3. The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai. The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Damascus for three crimes, even four, because they threshed Gilead with iron sledges. B Yet this was as nothing. Israel heard and readily believed Gods judgments upon others. 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. - Iron teeth (1:3): "Iron teeth" were part of a threshing sledge, a farming implement drawn over grain to thresh it and cut the stalks. 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). Salem Media Group. Its whole plain was intersected with canals, and tunneled below. What is the Biblical Perspective on Agriculture, Why Did Jesus Talk So Much About Agriculture, Why Jesus Talked So Much About Agriculture. In the visitations of others, it was to read its own; and that, the more, the nearer God was to them. After this Joash decided to restore the house of theLord. C And he will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you., Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. 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. 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. Theodoret supposes the horrible aggravation, that it was thus that the women with child were destroyed with their children, casting the aforesaid women, as into a sort of threshing-floor, they savagely threshed them out like ears of grain with saw-armed wheels.. Why does Amos keep repeating for three sins . Likewise, patience is a needed virtue for life. 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. Immediately, it was bounded by the three lakes which receive the surplus of the waters which enrich it. Sin in full bloom. Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.Job 1:14 And there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,1 Corinthians 15:38-39 But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.