Amos 1:7
And I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour the houses thereof.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 32:35Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.
2 Kings 18:8He smote the Philistines as far as Gaza, and all their borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
Psalms 75:7For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills:
Jeremiah 25:18To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof: to make them a desolation, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a curse, as it is at this day.
Amos 1:4And I will send a fire into the house of Azael, and it shall devour the houses of Benadad.
Zechariah 9:5Ascalon shall see, and shall fear, and Gaza, and shall be very sorrowful: and Accaron, because her hope is confounded : and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ascalon shall 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 →