For three — This certain number is put for an uncertain: three, that is, many. Of Damascus — Here Damascus is put for the whole kingdom of Syria. Threshed — Treated it with the utmost cruelty. Gilead — There was a country of this name, and a city, possessed by the Reubenites, Gadites, and Manassites; Gilead here is put for the inhabitants of this country and city, whom Hazael, king of Syria most barbarously murdered.
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Amos 1:3
3 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: