Amos 1:3-5

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³The Lord says, “The people of Damascus have sinned again and again, and I will not forget it. I will not leave her unpunished anymore. For they have threshed my people in Gilead as grain is threshed with iron rods. ⁴So I will set fire to King Hazael’s palace, destroying the strong fortress of Ben-hadad. ⁵I will snap the bars that locked the gates of Damascus and kill her people as far away as the plain of Aven, and the people of Syria shall return to Kir^[a] as slaves.” The Lord has spoken.

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Footnotes

Amos 1:5 the people of Syria shall return to Kir. Decreeing that the Syrians should go back to Kir as slaves was like saying to the Israelites that they must go back to Egypt as slaves, for the Syrians had made their exodus from Kir and now were free; see 9:7.