Graphic Bible · Scene 2 of 4
Amos 1:3-5
The Iron Sledge and Broken Gate
Cruelty among the Nations · Amos 1
Story guide: The sledge recalls the indictment against Damascus; the broken gate and smoke illustrate the announced judgment.
Open this scene in the reader →3Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke it, because they threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.”
4So I will send fire upon the house of Hazael, and it will consume the citadels of Ben-hadad.
5I will break the gate-bar of Damascus, and I will cut off the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Aram will go into exile to Kir,” says Yahweh.
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