Judgment on Damascus

23 Concerning (A)Damascus:

(B)“Hamath and (C)Arpad are confounded,
    for they have heard bad news;
they melt in fear,
    (D)they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet.

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34 (A)Where are the gods of (B)Hamath and (C)Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and (D)Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

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20 (A)But the wicked are like the tossing sea;
    for it cannot be quiet,
    and its waters toss up mire and dirt.

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15 And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.

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10 (A)Desolate! Desolation and ruin!
    (B)Hearts melt and (C)knees tremble;
(D)anguish is in all loins;
    (E)all faces grow pale!

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13 (A)Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?’”

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21 So they went up and spied out the land (A)from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, (B)near Lebo-hamath.

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But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue[a] childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 15:2 Or I shall die

32 At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas (A)was guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me,

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20 When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.

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and asked him for letters (A)to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to (B)the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

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The Coming of the Son of Man

25 “And (A)there will be signs in sun and moon (B)and stars, and on the earth (C)distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, 26 people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For (D)the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

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23 and as they sailed he fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on (A)the lake, and they were filling with water and were in danger. 24 And they went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And he awoke and (B)rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ceased, (C)and there was a calm.

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Judgment on Israel's Enemies

The oracle of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach
    and (A)Damascus is its resting place.
For the Lord has an eye on mankind
    and on all the tribes of Israel,[a]
(B)and on Hamath also, which borders on it,
    (C)Tyre and (D)Sidon, though (E)they are very wise.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 9:1 Or For the eye of mankind, especially of all the tribes of Israel, is toward the Lord

Pass over to (A)Calneh, and see,
    and from there go to (B)Hamath the great;
    then go down to (C)Gath of the Philistines.
(D)Are you better than these kingdoms?
    Or is their territory greater than your territory,

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Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of (B)Damascus,
    and for four, (C)I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they have threshed (D)Gilead
    with threshing sledges of iron.
(E)So I will send a fire upon the house of (F)Hazael,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of (G)Ben-hadad.
I will (H)break the gate-bar of (I)Damascus,
    and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of (J)Aven,[b]
and him who holds the scepter from (K)Beth-eden;
    and the people of (L)Syria shall go into exile to (M)Kir,”
says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 1:3 Hebrew I will not turn it back; also verses 6, 9, 11, 13
  2. Amos 1:5 Or On

13 (A)Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?’”

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An Oracle Concerning Damascus

17 An (A)oracle concerning (B)Damascus.

Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city
    and will become a heap of ruins.
The cities of (C)Aroer are deserted;
    they will be for flocks,
    which will lie down, and (D)none will make them afraid.
The fortress will disappear from (E)Ephraim,
    and the kingdom from (F)Damascus;
and the remnant of Syria will be
    like (G)the glory of the children of Israel,
declares the Lord of hosts.

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Therefore all hands will be feeble,
    and every human heart (A)will melt.

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11 (A)In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, (B)from Assyria, (C)from Egypt, from (D)Pathros, from (E)Cush,[a] from (F)Elam, from (G)Shinar, from (H)Hamath, and from (I)the coastlands of the sea.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 11:11 Probably Nubia

26 They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths;
    their courage (A)melted away in their evil plight;
27 they reeled and (B)staggered like drunken men
    and (C)were at their wits' end.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 107:27 Hebrew and all their wisdom was swallowed up

Then Asa took silver and gold from the treasures of the house of the Lord and the king's house and sent them to Ben-hadad king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying,

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Assyria Resettles Samaria

24 (A)And the king of Assyria brought people from (B)Babylon, Cuthah, (C)Avva, (D)Hamath, and (E)Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the people of Israel. And they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.

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24 And he gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band, (A)after the killing by David. And they went to Damascus and lived there and made him king in Damascus.

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