Lexicon :: Strong's H1834 - dammeśeq

Abram said, “Lord [fn]GOD, what reward will You give me, since I am [leaving this world] childless, and he who will be the owner and heir of my house is this [servant] Eliezer from Damascus?”

The LORD [fn]said to him, “Go, return on your way to the Wilderness of Damascus; and when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael as king over Aram (Syria);

Now Elisha came to Damascus, and Ben-hadad king of Aram (Syria) was sick; and he was told, “The man of God has come here.”

The rest of the acts of Jeroboam [II], all that he did, his might, how he fought, and how he recovered Damascus and Hamath for Israel, which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

When the Arameans (Syrians) of [fn]Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David killed 22,000 of the Arameans.

Now it happened at the end of the year, that the army of Aram (Syria) went up against Joash. They came to Judah and Jerusalem and killed all the leaders among the people and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.

Therefore the LORD his God handed over Ahaz to the king of Aram (Syria), who defeated him and led away a great number [of the people] as captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also handed over to the king of Israel, who struck Judah with a great slaughter.

“Your neck is like a tower of ivory,

Your eyes the [sparkling] pools of Heshbon

By the gate of Bath-rabbim.

Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon

Which looks toward Damascus.

“Is not Calno [conquered] like Carchemish [on the Euphrates]?

Is not Hamath [subdued] like Arpad [her neighbor]?

Is not Samaria [in Israel] like Damascus [in Aram]?

The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning Damascus [capital of Aram (Syria), and Israel’s defense against Assyria].

“Listen carefully, Damascus will cease to be a city

And will become a fallen ruin.

“The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,

And the kingdom from Damascus

And the remnant of Aram (Syria);

They will be like the [departed] glory of [her ally] the children of Israel,”

Declares the LORD of hosts.

Concerning Damascus [in Syria].

“Hamath and Arpad are perplexed and shamed,

For they have heard bad news;

They are disheartened;

Troubled and anxious like a [storm-tossed] sea

Which cannot be calmed.

“I will set fire to the wall of Damascus,

And it will consume the palaces of [fn]Ben-hadad.”

“Now these are the names of the tribes: from the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan, which is on the northern border of Damascus, beside Hamath, and running from the east to the west, Dan, one portion.

Thus says the LORD,

“For three transgressions of Damascus and for four (multiplied delinquencies)

I shall not reverse its punishment or revoke My word concerning it,

Because they have threshed Gilead [east of the Jordan River] with sharp iron sledges [having spikes that crushed and shredded].

“I also will break the bar [of the gate] of Damascus,

And cut off and destroy the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven (Wickedness),

And the ruler who holds the scepter, from Beth-eden (Damascus);

And the people of Aram [conquered by the Assyrians] will go into exile to [fn]Kir,”

Says the LORD.

The [fn]oracle (a burdensome message) of the word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach [in Syria], with Damascus as its resting place (for the eyes of men, especially of all the tribes of Israel, are toward the LORD),