But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord,(A) what can you give me since I remain childless(B) and the one who will inherit[a] my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 15:2 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.

24 When David destroyed Zobah’s army, Rezon gathered a band of men around him and became their leader; they went to Damascus,(A) where they settled and took control.

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Your neck is like an ivory tower.(A)
Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon(B)
    by the gate of Bath Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon(C)
    looking toward Damascus.

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for the head of Aram is Damascus,(A)
    and the head of Damascus is only Rezin.(B)
Within sixty-five years
    Ephraim will be too shattered(C) to be a people.

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Judgment on Israel’s Neighbors

This is what the Lord says:

“For three sins of Damascus,(A)
    even for four, I will not relent.(B)
Because she threshed Gilead
    with sledges having iron teeth,

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