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Amos 1:3

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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:
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  1. 2 Kings 10:32–33Rank 1 from verse 3
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    32¶ In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;

    33From 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.

  2. 2 Kings 8:12Rank 2 from verse 3
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    12And 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.

  3. Amos 1:9Rank 3 from verse 3
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    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:

  4. Amos 2:6Rank 4 from verse 3
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    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;

  5. Isaiah 8:4Rank 5 from verse 3
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    4For 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.

  6. Amos 1:13Rank 6 from verse 3
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    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:

  7. Amos 1:6Rank 7 from verse 3
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    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:

  8. Amos 2:1Rank 8 from verse 3
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    1THUS 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:

  9. Jeremiah 49:23–27Rank 9 from verse 3
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    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.

    24Damascus 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.

    25How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

    26Therefore 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.

    27And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.

  10. Amos 1:11Rank 10 from verse 3
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    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:

  11. Amos 2:4Rank 11 from verse 3
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    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:

  12. Isaiah 17:1–3Rank 12 from verse 3
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    1THE burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

    2The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

    3The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.

  13. Zechariah 9:1Rank 13 from verse 3
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    1THE 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.

  14. 1 Kings 19:17Rank 14 from verse 3
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    17And 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.

  15. 2 Kings 13:3Rank 15 from verse 3
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    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 Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, all their days.

  16. 2 Kings 13:7Rank 16 from verse 3
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    7Neither 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.

  17. Ecclesiastes 11:2Rank 17 from verse 3
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    2Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

  18. Isaiah 41:15Rank 18 from verse 3
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    15Behold, 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.

  19. Isaiah 7:8Rank 19 from verse 3
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    8For 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.

  20. Job 19:3Rank 20 from verse 3
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    3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

  21. Job 5:19Rank 21 from verse 3
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    19He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

  22. Proverbs 6:16Rank 22 from verse 3
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    16¶ These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

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Amos 1:3

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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COMBINED MEANING

turn

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Sense 1: To change direction, position, condition, purpose, or allegiance; to cause such a change. Sense 2: One’s time or occasion in an order or succession.

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threshed

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1. Separated grain from husk or straw by beating, trampling, crushing, or an instrument. 2. By figure, crushed or beaten in like manner.

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threshing

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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of thresh (to separate grain from husks and straw by beating, treading, or a similar process).

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instruments

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Sense 1: Tools or implements by which work is done or effects are produced. Sense 2: Devices made to produce music.

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1:1THE words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

1:2And 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.

1:3Thus 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:

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1:4But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

1:5I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the Lord.

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