Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of Damascus, the capital of Syria, with its country, and for four, the number being by no means restricted, I will not turn the punishment thereof, literally, by way of parenthesis, "not will I reverse it," both threat and punishment being irrevocable, because they have threshed Gilead, the territory of Israel east of Jordan, with threshing instruments of iron, in a most cruel treatment of the conquered inhabitants, 2 Kings 10:32; 2 Kings 13:7,

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