Amos 1:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

I will break also the bar of Damascus— See 2 Kings 16:9. The bar means the gates or fortifications. Houbigant, instead of, The house of Eden, reads The house of pleasure; and for Kir, he translates Cyrene.

Amos 1:5

5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plaina of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.