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Damascus
Town or city mentioned in 58 verses of the Bible, most often in Acts.
Journeys through Damascus
- Israel into exile (722 BC)
Where it appears
Acts (14), 2 Kings (8), Isaiah (5), Ezekiel (5), 1 Kings (4), 2 Chronicles (4), Amos (4), Jeremiah (3), Genesis (2), 2 Samuel (2), 1 Chronicles (2), Zechariah (2) and 3 more
Key verses
- Genesis 14:15 first mention — And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
- Genesis 15:2 — And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
- 2 Samuel 8:6 — Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
- 2 Kings 16:10 — And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
- Isaiah 10:9 — Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
- Isaiah 17:1 — The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
- Isaiah 17:3 — The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
- Jeremiah 49:23 — Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
- Amos 1:3 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
- Zechariah 9:2 — And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise.
- Acts 9:2 — And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
- Acts 26:20 — But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judæa, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
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