Amos 1:3-4 NIV Biblical Theology SB, HCSB Gospel Project, Interpreter's KJV Abingdon 1956, Interpreter's RSV Abingdon 1956

Amos 1:3-4 Interpreter's RSV Abingdon 1956 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 sieges of iron.

So I will send a fire upon the house of Haz'ael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-ha'dad.

Isaiah 8:4 Interpreter's RSV Abingdon 1956 for before the child knows how to cry 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samar'ia will be carried away before the king of Assyria."

Isaiah 17:1-3 Interpreter's RSV Abingdon 1956 An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city, and will become a heap of ruins.

Her cities will be deserted for ever; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid.

The fortress will disappear from E'phraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, says the LORD of hosts.

Jeremiah 49:23-27 Interpreter's RSV Abingdon 1956 Concerning Damascus. "Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard evil tidings; they melt in fear, they are troubled like the sea which cannot be quiet.

Damascus has become feeble, she turned to flee, and panic seized her; anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.

How the famous city is forsaken, the joyful city!

Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed in that day, says the LORD of hosts.

And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-ha'dad."

Jeremiah 17:26-27 Interpreter's RSV Abingdon 1956 And people shall come from the cities of Judah and the places round about Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the Shephe'lah, from the hill country, and from the Negeb, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, cereal offerings and frankincense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of the LORD.

But if you do not listen to me, to keep the sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.' "

1 Kings 20:1-3 Interpreter's RSV Abingdon 1956 Ben-ha'dad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; thity-two kings were with him, and horses and chariots; and he went up and besieged Samar'ia, and fought against it.

And he sent messengers into the city of Ahab king of Israel, and said to him, "Thus say Ben-ha'dad:

'Your silver and your gold are mine; your fairest wives and children also are mine.' "

2 Kings 6:24-25 Interpreter's RSV Abingdon 1956 Afterward Ben-ha'-dad king of Syria mustered his entire army, and went up, and besieged it.

And there was a great famine in Samar'ia, as they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for eight shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.