Amos 7:4
Thus lord LORD showed me: And, behold, lord LORD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land.
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In Context
3LORD relented concerning this. It shall not be, says LORD.
5Then I said, O lord LORD, cease, I beseech thee. How shall Jacob stand, for he is small?
Cross References
Leviticus 10:2And there came forth fire from before LORD, and devoured them, and they died before LORD.
Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in my anger, and burns to the lowest Sheol, and devours the earth with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Isaiah 66:15For, behold, LORD will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind, to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Jeremiah 21:12O house of David, thus says LORD: Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your do
Joel 2:30And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Amos 1:7But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour the palaces of it.
Matthew Henry on Amos 7:2-10
Intercession for Israel; Ruin of Israel Foretold. ( b. c. 785.) 1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. 2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord God , forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. 3 The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord . 4 Thus hath… Read the whole commentary →