Study it in the app“Thus says YHWH: For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke it; because they carried into exile a whole captive people to hand them over to Edom.”
ThusכֹּהsaysאָמַרYHWH:יְהוָהForעַלthreeשְׁלֹשָׁהtransgressionsפִּשְׁעֵיof Gaza,עַזָּהand forוְעַלfour,אַרְבָּעָהI will notלֹאrevoke it;אֲשִׁיבֶנּוּbecauseעַלthey carried into exileהַגְלוֹתָםa wholeשְׁלֵמָהcaptive peopleגָּלוּתto hand them overלְהַסְגִּירto Edom.לֶאֱדוֹם
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “amar” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsthree
A quantity of three: three persons or things together.
Where else “shelosha” appearstransgression
A serious wrong against someone: rebellion, transgression.
Where else “pishe” appearsGaza
See it on the mapWhere else “aza” appearsfour
Four.
Where else “arbaa” appearsreturn
To go back to a place.
Where else “ashive” appearsgo into exile
To be taken away from one's own land, or deport others.
Where else “haglota” appearswhole
With nothing missing or amiss; whole, exact.
Where else “shelema” appearsexiles
The group of those carried off far from their land.
Where else “galut” appearshand over
To leave a person or a people in the power of an enemy.
Where else “hasgir” appearsEdom
See it on the mapWhere else “edom” appears1Gaza
Today: Gaza City, Gaza Strip
A Philistine city on the Mediterranean coast, at the far southwest of Israel.
There the Philistines blinded Samson and made him grind grain (Judg 16:21); he died there pulling down the temple (Judg 16:30).
2Edom
Today: southern Jordan and the southern Negev
A mountain region south of the Dead Sea, in what is now southwest Jordan.
The Edomites came from Esau, Jacob's brother (Gen 36:1). Edom would not let Israel pass through its land (Num 20:14-21).
5And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Aram will go into exile to Kir, says YHWH.
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7And I will send fire on the wall of Gaza, and it will devour her citadels.
