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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:
Amos 1:13 — KJV
Ammon. In vs. 13-15 the prophet declares the judgment to come upon Ammon. Ammon was related to Israel through Lot. Solomon’s harem included many women from Ammon (1 Kings 11:1,7). Though the Ammonites appear to have been originally a predatory and wandering people, the abundance of mines in their land shows that later they were a settled people with fixed abodes.
Ripped up. For instances of the hostility of the Ammonites toward Israel see 1 Sam. 11:1-3; 2 Sam. 10:1-5; 2 Chron. 20; Neh. 2:10, 19; 4:1-3. Envy, jealousy, and fear united the Ammonites with the Moabites to hire Balaam to curse Israel (see Deut. 23:3, 4). Though we have no other record of the outrageous act of the Ammonites against the Gileadites here recorded, Hazael of Syria used this method of barbarity, and it is quite possible that the Ammonites may have joined him in this barbaric crime (see 2 Kings 8:12; Hosea 13:16).
Enlarge their border. The Ammonites claimed the territory the Israelites had taken from Sihon, and attempted to capture it in the time of Jephthah (see Judges 11). Later they seized territory from Gad, which brought upon them stern denunciation from the prophet Jeremiah (see Jer. 49:1-6).
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