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. 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. {ime fie fie tke the fhe ike fhe hours with the bible; or, the scriptures in the light of modern discovery and knowledge. Yet this was as nothing. 10:3233). Amos used the imagery of threshing to convey the damage wrought by Damascus upon the inhabitants of Gilead. 5 I will break the gate bars of Damascus and I will cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven and the one who takes . 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. Seldom, said pagan experience, hath punishment with lingering foot parted with the miscreant, advancing before.. N It had then doubtless, beside the population of its plain, large nomadic hordes dependent upon it. 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. Not naming it, he leaves it the rather to be conceived of by the mind, as something which had been of old coming upon them to overwhelm them, which God had long stayed back, but which, since He would now stay it no longer, would burst in, with the more terrific and overwhelming might, because it had been restrained before. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? I will not turn away the punishment thereof. The third, having gained the greatest power of all, seeking to repair the defeat of his grandfather, warring against the Jews, wasted what is now callcd Samaritis. They could not brook a defeat, which they had brought upon themselves. Meonothai fathered Ophrah; and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-harashim, so-called because they were craftsmen. 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.. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. , Matthew 13:1-10 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. He condemns forcibly removing populations from their homeland. Stated differently, the cities/nations would not be judged merely because of one transgression or even two. 4 So I will send fire against Hazael's house and it will consume the citadel fortresses of Ben-Hadad. 4 So I will send a fire on the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad. Tyre was an important commercial center in the Ancient Near East (cf. I didnt know that thrashing tools might have been used in torturing people. All rights reserved. VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. Nature takes its own time. 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. Publication date: Jun 3, 2010. The work is never done. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. perhaps more (cf. This rhetorical pattern stresses the sin and the consequence. Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear., 2 Chronicles 24:1-26:23 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. In this section, the divine message concerns Damascus. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. Israel is placed the last, because on it the destruction was to fall to the uttermost, and rest there. Hesed, P After this Joash decided to restore the house of theLord. The fact that his chief and confidential servant whom he entrusted to seek a wife for Isaac, and who was, at one time, his heir, was a Damascene Genesis 15:2-3, implies some intimate connection of Abraham with Damascus. Visit the Bible online to search for words if you dont know the specific passage yourre looking for. F Success in life requires hard work. 1:1). 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. Restore our fortunes, OLord, like streams in the Negeb! Not the ethics and the morality of the fathers community. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely., Isaiah 29:17 Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?Deuteronomy 22:9-10 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. 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. 5 I will break the gate bars of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, Again, Sowing discord among brethren Proverbs 6:16-19, has a special hatefulness, as not only being sin, but causing widewasting sin, and destroying in others the chief grace, love. 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. January 9, 2013 at 8:31 am and is filed under Biblical Texts. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. 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. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. Abijam was in league with the father of Benhadad 1 Kings 15:19. We have detected that you are using extensions to block ads. When He no longer withholds it, the law of His moral government holds its course. So Paul speaks of those who treasure up to themselves wrath against the Day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God Romans 2:5. So in other places, where the like form of words occurs, the added number is one beyond, and mostly relates to something greater than all the rest. After his death, his descendants reigned for ten generations, each receiving from his father the name (Hadad) together with the kingdom, like the Ptolemies of Egypt. 4 tn Heb "they threshed [or "trampled down"] Gilead with sharp iron implements" (NASB similar). Publisher: OpenBible.info. God stated that He would also break the gate bar of Damascus. The region known as Gilead, the Transjordan area of Israel, was claimed by Damascus as well as Ammon. . Amos does not express it. This judgment includes the peoples of this region (probably the Biqah Valley) which was likely also a part of the kingdom of Aram. The name Damascus probably betokened the strenuous, energetic character of its founder. Isaiah 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Frequently threshing sledges (28:27) made of wood (2 Sam. Other poets use the same form of expression. For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four - These expressions of three and four, so often repeated in this chapter, mean repetition, abundance, and any thing that goes towards excess. If Amoss preaching bears witness to his insistence that nations need to acknowledge their sin, should not our preaching do the same? The area has been calculated at 236 square geographical miles. 2:694. Am I? The word transgression refers to acts of rebellion committed against someone in authority, such as when Israel rebelled against the house of David (1 Kgs. Benhadad II had thirty-two vassal kings 1 Kings 20:1, 1 Kings 20:24, (dependent kings like those of Canaan, each of his own city and little territory,) and led them against Samaria, intending to plunder it 1 Kings 20:6-7, and, on occasion of the plundering, probably to make it his own or to destroy it. God was and is seeking usfor He will separate usable grain from the waste straw or chaff. Assyrian chronicles relate only Assyrian victories. Change but the name, the tale is told of thee, was a pagan saying which has almost passed into a proverb. This likely refers to the entire kingdom of Aram, of which Damascus was the capital. Their commercial interests included the slave trade, even selling Judeans to Greeks far from their homeland (Joel 3:6). Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.Matthew 12:1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. Salem Media Group. For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.Jeremiah 5:24 They do not say in their hearts, Let us fear theLordour God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest., Ezekiel 27:17 Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, meal, honey, oil, and balm.Matthew 9:37 Then he said to his disciples, The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;Isaiah 30:24 And the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.Isaiah 28:24 Does he who plows for sowing plow continually?
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