Amos 2:5

And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

In Context

4These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.

6These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;

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Cross References

Jeremiah 17:27But if you do not give ear to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and to let no weight be lifted and taken through the doors of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: then I will put a fire in its doorways, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem, and it will never be put out.

Jeremiah 37:8And the Chaldaeans will come back again and make war against this town and they will take it and put it on fire.

Jeremiah 52:13And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire:

Amos 1:4And I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, burning up the great houses of Ben-hadad.

Matthew Henry on Amos 2:2-9

The Judgment of Moab and of Judah; The Judgment of Israel. ( b. c. 790.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: 2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: 3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith… Read the whole commentary →

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