1. Amos 1:3 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What was Damascus’s sin?

Amos 1:3 (ESV)

3 Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.

Damascus (and the people of Syria in general) threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. The reference to sledges of iron is probably implying extreme cruelty against both combatants and non-combatants.1