Amos 1:3-2:16
“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.”
King James Version
God's judgment pattern on six pagan nations and Judah for specific sins, fulfilled in Assyrian and Babylonian conquests.
Fulfillment References
2 Kings 16:9 Jeremiah 49:23-27 Amos 1:3-2:3
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