Gate Bar

Gate Bar

Amos 1:4 So I will send fire upon the house of Hazael and it will consume the citadels of Ben-hadad. 5 ) "I will also break the gate bar of Damascus, And cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, And him who holds the scepter, from Beth-eden; So the people of Aram (Syria) will go exiled to Kir," Says the LORD.

Ruins of Baalbek

Amos 1:6 Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of Gaza and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they deported an entire population To deliver it up to Edom.

The ruins of the Temple of Dagon (the fish god) are in Askelon in Israel near Gaza.

Dagon, the fish god, topples before the Arc of the Covenant Dagon, the fish god, topples before the Arc of the Covenant. 1 Samuel 5:2-5

It was the Temple of Dagon that God enabled Sampson to destroy It was the Temple of Dagon that God enabled Sampson to destroy. (Judges 16, 1 Chron. 10:10)

Amos 1:7-8 "So I will send fire upon the wall of Gaza and it will consume her citadels. 8) "I will also cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter, from Ashkelon; I will even unleash My power upon Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines will perish," Says the Lord GOD.

Joel 3:4-8 "Moreover, what are you to Me, O Tyre, Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering Me a recompense? But if you do recompense Me, swiftly and speedily I will return your recompense on your head. 5) "Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples, 6) and sold the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory, 7) behold, I am going to arouse them from the place where you have sold them, and return your recompense on your head. 8) "Also I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation," for the LORD has spoken.