Amos 1:7
And I will send a fire onto the wall of Gaza, and it will devour its buildings.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35Vengeance is mine, and I will repay them in due time, so that their foot may slip and fall. The day of perdition is near, and the time rushes to appear.’
2 Kings 18:8He struck the Philistines as far as Gaza, and in all their borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
Psalms 75:7At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, those who were mounted on horseback have fallen asleep.
Jeremiah 25:18Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its leaders, so that I gave them over to desolation, and stupor, and hissing, and a curse, just as it is this day.
Amos 1:4And I will send fire onto the house of Hazael, and it will devour the houses of Ben-hadad.
Zechariah 9:5Ashkelon will see and be afraid. Both Gaza and he will be very sorrowful, as well as Ekron, because her hope has been confounded. And the king will pass away from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
Matthew Henry on Amos 1:4-15
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 790.) 3 Thus saith the Lord ; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: 4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad. 5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into… Read the whole commentary →