Sermons on Slavery
The Sin of Gaza (Amos 1:6-8)
Amos now turns his attention to Gaza, one of the chief cities of the Philistines The Sin of Gaza The Philistines made many raids on the outer villages and towns of Israel and Judah. On one such raid they even made it as far as Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 21:16-17.) During these raids they would kidnap everyone they could, old and young, male and female. They would then sell the people that they kidnapped to be slaves for the Edomites. The…