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|A herdsmen of Tekoa and appears with a [[Mem]] at the beginning as MemTavKufVavAyin  מִתְּק֑וֹעַ <Ref>{{08620}}</Ref> ''Tekoa'' can mean "a stockade" or protected place but also an instrument through which you blow. <Br>Was Amos a shepherd of sheep or of the people who sounded the warning of God through the [[Holy Spirit]] and [[faith]]? 
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| Carmel<Ref>{{03760}}</Ref> is also mentioned by [[Micah 7]]:14 which is a reference to being [[fruit]]ful<Ref>[[Benson Commentary]] states says Carmel "is sometimes taken appellatively, and translated a ''fruitful field''. '''Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary'''
[[Amos 1]]:18-21  "Christ is this Fountain..." shall make us "abound in fruits of righteousness.</Ref> as we were commanded by God in the beginning. Carmel is associated with practices that reduces the fruitfulness of societies ([[Nahum 1]]:4, [[Joel 1]]:12,17, [[Amos 9]]:3). Even Jesus took the [[kingdom of God]] from the [[Pharisees]] because they and their system of [[Corban]] was not bearing fruit.<Ref>[[Matthew 21]]:43  Therefore say I unto you, The [[kingdom of God]] shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.</Ref>  
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| The transgressions<Ref>{{06588}}</Ref> of Damascus, the capital of Syria, is said to be three even four is likely used as an ''idiomatic phrase'', signifying “multiplied or repeated delinquencies”.
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| The threshing instruments<Ref>{{02742}}</Ref> of iron may simply be a metaphor meaning making the decision to use [[force]] and is that [[choice]] which brings destruction and [[captivity]]. There is [[welfare]] that is a [[snare]] which David and Paul and even Peter says makes the people [[merchandise]]. [[Polybius]] warns that an [[appetite]] for [[benefits]] and the instituting the rule of [[force]] [[degenerate|degenerates]] the [[masses]] giving rise to tyrants which opens society to the [[Saul Syndrome|Saul Syndrome]] and the ways of [[Sodom]].
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| Is the [[fire]] sent a ''strange fire'' that brings the consequences for the transgressions? Is the fire also a consequence and the names symbols themselves poeticly telling us deeper meanings?<Br>[[John the Baptist]] would not use [[force]] to provide [[social welfare]] but the [[Corban]] of [[Herod]] did which made the word of God to none effect.  
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| '''Vers 5''' "I will break<Ref>וְשָֽׁבַרְתִּי֙ VavShinBeitReishTavYod [https://biblehub.com/hebrew/veshavarti_7665.htm appears 7 times] out of 148 occurrences. <Br>{{07665}}</Ref> also the bar<Ref> בְּרִ֣יחַ BeitReishYodHey <Br>{{01280}}</Ref> of Damascus<Ref> DelatMemShinKuf<Br>{{01834}}</Ref>, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven<Ref>{{0206}}</Ref>, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden<Ref>{{05731}}</Ref>: and the people of Syria<Ref>{{0758}}</Ref> shall go into captivity<Ref name="galah">{{01540}}</Ref> unto Kir<Ref>KufYodReishHey <Br>{{07024}}</Ref>, saith the LORD."
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| '''V12''' This [[fire]] sent on to Teman, which is a place ''east of Edon''<Ref name="Teman">{{08487}}</Ref> devthes the palaces (high places)<Ref name="armown">{{0759}}</Ref> of Bozrah which the people thought was a fortress.<Ref name="Bozrah">{{01224}}</Ref>
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| They "delivered up the whole [[captivity]] to Edom<Ref>{{0123}}</Ref>, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:"<Ref>Some suggest that the  "covenant of brethren " was the league made between Hiram and David, and afterwards between Hiram and Solomon ([[2 Samuel 5]]:11; 1 Kings 5:1; [[1 Kings 5]]:12 )but the true ''brotherly covenant'' dates back when there was [[no king]] in [[Israel]] and the people were bound together by the practice of [[pure religion]]. [[Ezekiel 16]]:49 "Behold, this was the [[iniquity]] of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." This was an indictment of Israel because it failed to abide by [[Leviticus 25]]:35 "And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he be] a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee." when the people turned to the [[legal charity]] offered by men who [[exercise authority]] like [[Cain]], [[Nimrod]] and [[FDR]] rather that the [[freewill offerings]] provided by the [[fervent charity]] of [[The Way]].</Ref>
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| Is "enlarge their border" the same as lengthens the [[fringe]] of their [[garments]]?
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| This word for ''[[captivity]]'' commonly appears in Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Because Joseph was sold into [[bondage]] his brothers also went into ''bondage''.
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| The idea of stripping people of their rights and their property so that "they have nothing" was the goal of the serpent who is the dragon.
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| God would punish those who do such evil but that is why evil wants us to do it to ourselves, ''remembering not the brotherly covenant.''<Ref>There are referrences to  "Phœnicia’s mercantile cupidity, and Tyre was tempted to sell Hebrew captives to Greeks and Idumeans" But men have often been [[merchants of men]] and can make our brothers [[merchandise]] where we [[legal title|own nothing]].</Ref>
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| [[Proverbs 14]]:31 " oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker:" - [[Proverbs 17]]:5 "Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker" - [[Galatians 6]]:10 "As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of [[faith]]."
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== Herdsmen of Tekoa ==

1 ¶ The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of [[Jeroboam II|Jeroboam]] the son of Joash king of [[Israel]], two years before the earthquake.

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And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from [[Jerusalem]]; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:

== Devouring fire ==

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But I will send a [[fire]] into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces<Ref name="armown">{{0759}}</Ref> of Benhadad.

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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.

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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away [[captive]]<Ref name="galah"></Ref> the whole [[captivity]],<Ref name="galuwth">{{01546}}</Ref> to deliver them up to Edom:

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But I will send a [[fire]] on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:

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And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.

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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole [[captivity]]<Ref name="galuwth">{{01546}}</Ref> to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:

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But I will send a [[fire]] on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.

=== transgressions of Edom ===

11 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his [[wrath]] for ever:

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But I will send a fire upon Teman,<Ref name="Teman">{{08487}}</Ref> which shall devour the palaces<Ref name="armown">{{0759}}</Ref> of Bozrah.<Ref name="Bozrah">{{01224}}</Ref>

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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:

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But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:

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And their king shall go into captivity<Ref name="gowlah">{{01473}}</Ref>, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.

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