The Strand Study Bible

AMOS 1:8

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AMOS 2:12

Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof: P 8 1 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the scep- tre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD. P The promise of Tyre’s fall to Greece (Fulfilled - 332 BC) 9 Thus saith the LORD; For three trans- gressions of Tyrus, and for four, 2 I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole cap- tivity to Edom, and remembered not the 3 brotherly covenant: P 10 2 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the pal- aces thereof. P The promise of Edom’s fall to Assyria (Fulfilled - 711 BC) 11 Thus saith the LORD; For three trans- gressions of 4 Edom, and for four, 5 I will not turn away the punishment thereof; 6 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: P 12 5 But I will send a fire upon 7 Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah. P The promise of Ammon’s fall to Assyria (Fulfilled - 711 BC) 13 Thus saith the LORD; For three trans- gressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, 8 I will not turn away the punish- ment thereof; 9 because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border: P 14 8 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, witha tempest in thedayof thewhirlwind: P 15 8 And their king shall go into cap- tivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD. P Amos 2 The promise of Moab’s fall to Assyria (Fulfilled - 711 BC) Date Written - c. 765 BC/AM 3235 1 Thus saith the LORD ; For three trans- gressions of Moab, and for four, 10 I will not

turn away the punishment thereof; 11 be- cause he burned the bones of the king of Edom into 12 lime: P 2 10 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: P 3 10 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD. P The promise of Assyria to distress more Judean cities (Fulfilled - II Ki 18:13,14 - 704 BC) 4 Thus saith the LORD; For three trans- gressions of 13 Judah, and for four, 14 I will not turn away the punishment thereof; 15 because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his command- ments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked: P 5 14 But I will send a fire upon Judah, 16 and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. P 6 Thus saith the LORD; For three trans- gressions of Israel, and for four, 17 I will not turn away the punishment thereof; be- cause they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; P 7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and 18 a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: 8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes 19 laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the 20 wine of the condemned in the house of their god. 9 Yet destroyed I the 21 Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. 10 Also I 22 brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you 23 forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. 11 And I raised up of your sons for proph- ets, and of your 24 young men for 25 Naza- rites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD. 12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to The promise of Israel’s fall to Assyria (Fulfilled - II Ki 17:6 & 18:10,11 - 721 BC)

1. Fulfilled - 713 BC (Fall of Philistia) 2. Fulfilled - 332 BC (Fall of Tyre) 3. II Sam 5:11 & I Ki 5:1 & 9:12-13 4. Isa 21:11-12 5. Fulfilled - 711 BC (Fall of Edom) 6. I Ki 11:14 & II Ki 8:20-22 7. or, “Edom” 8. Fulfilled - 711 BC (Fall of Ammon) 9. Jud 11:4 & II Sam 10 & 12:26 10. Fulfilled - 711 BC (Fall of Moab) 11. II Ki 3:26-27 12. or, “powder” 13. Isa 28:14-17 & Hosea 12:2 14. Fulfilled - II Ki 18:13-14 & II Chro 32:1 & Isa 36:1 (Assyrian Distress of Judean Cities) 15. Lev 26:14-16 & II Ki 8:16-18,24-27 & 11:1-3 16. Hos 8:14 17. Fulfilled - II Ki 17:6 & 18:10-11 (Fall of Israel) 18. Lev 20:3,11 19. Exo 22:26 20. Prov 20:1 & 23:20-21,29-35 21. Num 21:24-25 22. Exo 12:51 23. Deut 2:7 24. such as, “Samson (Jud 13:5) and Samuel (I Sam 1:10-11)” 25. Num 6:1-5

1:12 Bozrah was one of Edom’s major cities. 1:15 Assyria overthrew Ammon ( And their king shall go into captivity ), Edom, and Moab in 711 BC, just twenty-one years after they had overthrown the 2½ tribes of Israel on the east side of the Jordan River c. 732 BC (I Chro 5:25-26).