Damascus

And the heart of the warriors of Edom shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her birth pains.

Judgment on Damascus Concerning Damascus, Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard bad news.

They melt in fear.

They are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet.

Damascus has become feeble.

She turned to flee, and panic seized her.

Anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her as of a woman in labor.

How is the famous city not forsaken, the city of my joy? Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed in that day, declares the Lord of hosts.

Syria's state news agency says five civilians have been killed after Jordan launched airstrikes against its neighbour.

Damascus has closed a border crossing between the two countries.

Jordan said it targeted what it calls militant hideouts in southern Syria.

The Kingdom alleges that the gunmen behind a deadly attack at a church last week were linked to a terrorist group operating there.

Syria's state news agency says five civilians have been killed after Jordan launched airstrikes against its neighbour.

Damascus has closed a border crossing between the two countries.

Jordan said it targeted what it calls militant hideouts in southern Syria.

The Kingdom alleges that the gunmen behind a deadly attack at a church last week were linked to a terrorist group operating there.

The Jordanian government said the attackers were linked to terrorist organizations in Syria.

Jordan said the strikes were coordinated with Damascus, but Syria denied this and said it had launched an investigation.

Syrian authorities also closed the Nassib border crossing shortly after the strikes.

Egypt's parliament has authorised President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to send troops to Saudi Arabia to defend the kingdom against external attacks.

He was no master in warfare, but it didn't seem to matter.

The collective forces of Abram again pursued the last of the great army to Hobah, north of Damascus.

They had traveled hundreds of miles from where they started.

Abram's gods sustained them and granted them victory after victory.

When I realized more, the change was when I went to Damascus for the first time and when you cross the border from Lebanon and you see the change immediately and you feel there is something different even in the way people behave and that's very emotional, very moving.

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So you're really into the meeting and not really putting yourself at a distance to look at the historical meaning of the moment.

I think the moment when I realized more.

The change was when I went to Damascus for the first time.

It was just something like a month, you know, afterwards or two.

And when you cross the border from Lebanon and you see the change immediately, you know, it's not anymore the old regime.

La tension monte entre la Jordanie et la Syrie.

Huit civils, dont des femmes et des enfants, ont été tués, selon les autorités de Damas, par des frappes aériennes qui ont été menées par l'armée jordanienne dans le sud du pays.

Amman affirme avoir visé des groupes terroristes qui seraient impliqués dans l'attentat qui a frappé une église en Jordanie, c'était vendredi dernier.

Et ce mardi matin, les autorités syriennes ont décidé de fermer leur poste principal, poste frontière avec le royaume jordanien.

Les frappes ont notamment touché donc la province de Deraa.

On est toujours proche de la frontière jordanienne.

Selon Damas, plusieurs localités ont été bombardées et des civils figurent parmi les victimes.

L'armée jordanienne, elle, affirme avoir détruit des positions, des équipements appartenant à des organisations terroristes.

So the king appointed an official for her, saying, Restore all that was hers together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now.

Now Elisha came to Damascus.

Ben-Hadad, the king of Syria, was sick, and when it was told him, The man of God has come here, the king said to Hazael, Take a present with you, and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the Lord through him, saying, Shall I recover from this sickness? So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camels' loads.

When he came and stood before him, he said, Your son Ben-Hadad, king of Syria, has sent me to you, saying, Shall I recover from this sickness? And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, You shall certainly recover.

But the Lord has shown me that he shall certainly die.

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying.

In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to arrest me.

But I was let down in a rope basket through a window in the city wall and escaped his hands.

Chapter 12, Paul's Thorn in the Flesh it is necessary to go on boasting.