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Amos 1:3

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Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;

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Contradictions (1)

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  • Does God allow pregnant women to be ripped apart?

    Hosea 13:16 has Yahweh announce that Samaria's pregnant women "shall be ripped up" as judgment — divine sanction on the act. Amos 1:13 has Yahweh condemn the Ammonites for ripping up the pregnant women of Gilead.

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