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The Lord says, ‘The people in Gaza have done more and more wrong things.[a] So I will certainly punish them.

They caught my people and they took them away from their homes. They sold them to the people in Edom. So I will send a fire to burn the walls of Gaza. It will destroy the strong buildings in Gaza. I will remove the king of Ashdod city. And I will remove the king who rules in Ashkelon city. I will punish the people who live in Ekron city. All the Philistines who remain will die.’ That is what the Lord God says.

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  1. 1:6 Gaza was a city where the Philistine people lived.

This is what the Lord says:

“For three sins of Gaza,(A)
    even for four, I will not relent.(B)
Because she took captive whole communities
    and sold them to Edom,(C)
I will send fire on the walls of Gaza
    that will consume her fortresses.
I will destroy the king[a] of Ashdod(D)
    and the one who holds the scepter in Ashkelon.
I will turn my hand(E) against Ekron,
    till the last of the Philistines(F) are dead,”(G)
says the Sovereign Lord.(H)

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  1. Amos 1:8 Or inhabitants