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Isaiah 17

Isa. 17:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thec burden
massa' (Hebrew #4853)
a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly a doom, especially singing; mental, desire
KJV usage: burden, carry away, prophecy, X they set, song, tribute.
Pronounce: mas-saw'
Origin: from 5375
of Damascus
Dammeseq (Hebrew #1834)
or Darmeseq {dar-meh'-sek}; of foreign origin; Damascus, a city of Syria
KJV usage: Damascus.
Pronounce: dam-meh'-sek
Origin: or Duwmeseq {doo-meh'-sek}
. Behold, Damascus
Dammeseq (Hebrew #1834)
or Darmeseq {dar-meh'-sek}; of foreign origin; Damascus, a city of Syria
KJV usage: Damascus.
Pronounce: dam-meh'-sek
Origin: or Duwmeseq {doo-meh'-sek}
d is taken away
cuwr (Hebrew #5493)
a primitive root; to turn off (literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), X grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, X be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
Pronounce: soor
Origin: or suwr (Hosea 9:12) {soor}
from being a city
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
, and it shall be a ruinous
mappalah (Hebrew #4654)
from 5307; something fallen, i.e. a ruin
KJV usage: ruin(-ous).
Pronounce: map-paw-law'
Origin: or mappelah {map-pay-law'}
heap
m`iy (Hebrew #4596)
a pile of rubbish (as contorted), i.e. a ruin (compare 5856)
KJV usage: heap.
Pronounce: meh-ee'
Origin: from 5753
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Jer. 49:23• 23Concerning Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad; for they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away: there is distress on the sea; it cannot be quiet. (Jer. 49:23)
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Amos 1:3‑5• 3Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke my sentence, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.
 4And I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad.
 5And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Beth-Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith Jehovah. (Amos 1:3‑5)
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Zech. 9:1• 1The burden of the word of Jehovah, in the land of Hadrach, and on Damascus shall it rest; (for Jehovah hath an eye upon men, and upon all the tribes of Israel;) (Zech. 9:1)
,fulfilled
d
2 Kings 16:9• 9And the king of Assyria hearkened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried it captive to Kir, and put Rezin to death. (2 Kings 16:9)

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-5:  Syria and Israel are threatened.
6-8:  A remnant shall forsake idolatry.
9-11:  The rest shall be plagued for their impiety.
12-14:  The woe of Israel's enemies.
A.M. cir. 3263.
B.C. cir. 741.
burden.
Isa. 15:1• 1The burden of Moab: For in the night of being laid waste, Ar of Moab is destroyed; for in the night of being laid waste, Kir of Moab is destroyed! (Isa. 15:1)
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Isa. 19:1• 1The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt are moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt melteth in the midst of it. (Isa. 19:1)
Damascus.
Isa. 7:8• 8for the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken, so as to be no more a people; (Isa. 7:8)
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Gen. 14:15• 15And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is to the left of Damascus. (Gen. 14:15)
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Gen. 15:2• 2And Abram said, Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me? seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus. (Gen. 15:2)
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1 Kings 11:24• 24And he collected men to him, and became captain of a band, when David slew them of Zobah; and they went to Damascus, and dwelt there, and reigned in Damascus. (1 Kings 11:24)
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1 Chron. 18:5• 5And the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, and David smote of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men. (1 Chron. 18:5)
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2 Chron. 28:5,23• 5Therefore Jehovah his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
 23And he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which had smitten him; and he said, Since the gods of the kings of Syria help them, I will sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel. (2 Chron. 28:5,23)
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Jer. 49:23‑27• 23Concerning Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad; for they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away: there is distress on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
 24Damascus is grown feeble: she turneth herself to flee, and terror hath seized on her; trouble and sorrows have taken hold of her as of a woman in travail.
 25How is not the town of praise forsaken, the city of my joy!
 26Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all the men of war be cut off in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts.
 27And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad. (Jer. 49:23‑27)
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Amos 1:3‑5• 3Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke my sentence, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.
 4And I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad.
 5And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Beth-Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith Jehovah. (Amos 1:3‑5)
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Zech. 9:1• 1The burden of the word of Jehovah, in the land of Hadrach, and on Damascus shall it rest; (for Jehovah hath an eye upon men, and upon all the tribes of Israel;) (Zech. 9:1)
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Acts 9:2• 2and asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any who were of the way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. (Acts 9:2)
Damascus is.
Isa. 8:4• 4For before the lad knoweth to cry, My father! and, My mother! the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. (Isa. 8:4)
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Isa. 10:9• 9Is not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus? (Isa. 10:9)
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2 Kings 16:9• 9And the king of Assyria hearkened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried it captive to Kir, and put Rezin to death. (2 Kings 16:9)
a ruinous.
Isa. 25:2• 2For thou hast made of the city a heap, of the fortified town a ruin, the palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built up. (Isa. 25:2)
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Isa. 37:26• 26Hast thou not heard that long ago I did it, and that from ancient days I formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. (Isa. 37:26)
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Jer. 49:2• 2Therefore behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will cause the clamour of war to be heard in Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall be a desolate heap; and her towns shall be burned with fire; and Israel shall possess them that possessed him, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 49:2)
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Mic. 1:6• 6Therefore will I make Samaria as a heap of the field, as plantings of a vineyard; and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will lay bare the foundations thereof. (Mic. 1:6)
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Mic. 3:12• 12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest. (Mic. 3:12)
• In the days of Isaiah, Damascus had been allied with the ten tribes. Its “burden” fills the three verses that open chapter 17. (“Isaiah 17” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.