This is Daniel Whyte III with The Scripture & The Sense Podcast #409, where I read the Word of God and give the sense of it based on an authoritative commentary source such as the Bible Knowledge Commentary. This podcast is based upon Nehemiah 8:8 where it says Ezra and the Levites “read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.” The aim of this podcast is that through the simple reading of the Word of God and the giving of the sense of it, the church would be revived and the world would be awakened.
Today we are reading Amos 1:6.
6 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 the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
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That was Amos 1:6. Now here is the sense of it.
The Bible Knowledge Commentary reads:
In verses 6–8 four of the five cities comprising the Philistine pen-ta-polis are mentioned—Gaza, Ash-dod, Ash-ke-lon, and Ek-ron. The omission of the fifth, Gath, may be due to its ruined condition at the time of Amos because of the batterings of Ha-za-el in 815 b.c. and Uz-zi-ah in 760 b.c. The Philistines’ crime against humanity was that they captured whole communities in slave raids and sold them for commercial profit. Defenseless people were treated as mere objects and auctioned off in the slave markets of Edom, from which they were shipped to other parts of the world.
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