Amos 1:6

"The LORD says: “For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they carried away captive the whole community, to deliver them up to Edom;"

Key Reflection

Amos highlights the persistent and severe judgment on Gaza, emphasizing that even after three significant sins, God would not relent due to a fourth major transgression involving the abduction of an entire community for sale to Edom. This underscores the seriousness with which God views oppression and exploitation, showing no tolerance for such wickedness, regardless of its frequency or severity.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Gaza -Was the southernmost city of the Philistines, as it was indeed of CanaanGenesis 10:19of old, the last inhabited place at the beginning of the desert, on the way from Phoenicia to Egypt . Its situation was wonderfully chosen, so that, often as a Gaza has been destroyed, a new city has, if even after long intervals, risen up again in the same immediate neighborhood . The fragments of the earlier city became materials for the later.

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