Genesis 15:2
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
2 But Abram said, ‘Lord God, what can you give me, since I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? ’[a]
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- 15:2 Hb obscure
1 Kings 11:24
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
24 and gathered men to himself. He became leader of a raiding party when David killed the Zobaites. He[a] went to Damascus,(A) lived there, and became king in Damascus.
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- 11:24 LXX; Hb reads They
Song of Songs 7:4
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
4 Your neck is like a tower of ivory,(A)
your eyes like pools in Heshbon
by Bath-rabbim’s gate.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
looking towards Damascus.
Isaiah 7:8
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
8 The chief city of Aram is Damascus,
the chief of Damascus is Rezin
(within sixty-five years
Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people),
Amos 1:3
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
Judgement on Israel’s Neighbours
3 The Lord says:
I will not relent from punishing Damascus(A)
for three crimes, even four,(B)
because they threshed Gilead with iron sledges.
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