Gaza - Was the southernmost city of the Philistines, as it was indeed of Canaan (Genesis 10:19) in ancient times, the last inhab…

CURSE ON PHILISTIA.

The marginal reading is more literal and points to the special bitterne of Philistia's actions, represen…

Amos here directs his discourse against Gaza, which the Philistines occupied. It was situated in the territory of the tribe of Judah, towards the s…

Thus says the Lord, for three transgressions of Gaza
The chief city of the Philistines, and put for the whole countr…

GOD employed a shepherd, a herdsman, to reprove and warn the people. Those to whom God gives abilities for His services, ought not to be despised f…