I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
Study Helps
Interpretation
This verse speaks in the wider setting of justice and false worship as Amos unfolds its message.
Glossary
- Damascus Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Damascus.
- Beth-eden Place
- Biblical region. Modern identification: Til Barsip.
- Kir Place
- A wall or fortress, a place to which Tiglath-pileser carried the Syrians captive after he had taken the city of Damascus ( 2 Kings 16:9 ; Amos 1:5 ; 9:7 ). Modern identification: Der.
- Syria Place
- Biblical region. Modern identification: Damascus.
- Valley of Aven Place
- Biblical valley. Modern identification: Baalbek.