Shabbat Shalom!
This is what the Lord says:
“For three sins of Gaza,
even for four, I will not relent.
Because she took captive whole communities
and sold them to Edom, I will send fire on the walls of Gaza
that will consume her fortresses. I will destroy the king[a] of Ashdod
and the one who holds the scepter in Ashkelon.
I will turn my hand against Ekron,
till the last of the Philistines are dead,”
says the Sovereign Lord.
- Amos 1:6-8
Mount Tekoa is and was more famous still for the great prophet who had come from there centuries before, Amos 'who had been of the herdsmen of Tekoa' (Amos i, 1), who was snatched from a life of familiarity with the wilderness and its hard and humble ways, to be a prophet of God in cities and among the rich and heedless ...
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安息日快樂！
耶和華如此說：
「迦薩三番四次犯罪，
擄掠全體百姓交給以東，
我必不撤銷對它的懲罰。
我要降火在迦薩城內，
吞滅它的宮殿；
我要剪除亞實突的居民
和亞實基倫的掌權者，
反手攻擊以革倫，
剩餘的非利士人都必滅亡。」
這是主耶和華說的。
(阿摩司書 1:6-8 )
特科亞山因幾個世紀前來自那裡的偉大先知阿摩司而聞名，阿摩司「曾是特科亞的牧民」（阿摩司書1:1），他從熟悉荒野的生活中被呼召，在城市中、在富人和粗心的人中成為上帝的先知，這是艱難而卑微的方式......
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