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title: "Gaebelein"
description: "CHAPTER 17  The Burden of Damascus and Judgment upon Ephraim 1.  Damascus to be a ruinous heap (Isaiah 17:1-3  ) 2.  Judgment upon Ephraim (Isaiah 17:4-1"
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**CHAPTER 17**
The Burden of Damascus and Judgment upon Ephraim
1. *Damascus to be a ruinous heap ([Isaiah 17:1-3](../../../kjv/isaiah/17/1-3)* *)* 2. *Judgment upon Ephraim ([Isaiah 17:4-11](../../../kjv/isaiah/17/4-11)* *)* 3. *Woe to the enemies of Israel ([Isaiah 17:12-14](../../../kjv/isaiah/17/12-14)* *)* Damascus was the ancient city of Syria, mentioned for the first time in [Genesis 15:1-21](../../../kjv/genesis/15/1-21) . Syria and Ephraim had made common cause against the house of David. Tiglath-pileser, King of Assyria, executed the judgment upon Damascus and made of it a ruinous heap. But the judgment is also future. And the enemies of Israel, which trouble His people, will be troubled “in that day.” It is a solemn word with which this chapter closes, “This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.”

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