Amos 1:10

So I will send down fire on the walls of Tyre and burn up its fortresses.

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In The King James Version

But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.

In Context

9This is what the Lord says: The people of Tyre have repeatedly sinned and so I will not hesitate to punish them, for they exiled whole communities, handing them over to Edom, and did not keep their agreement to help each other as members of the same family.

11This is what the Lord says: The people of Edom have repeatedly sinned and so I will not hesitate to punish them, for they hunted down the Israelites to whom they were related, killing them with swords. They attacked without mercy, tearing the Israelites to pieces in an angry rage that never stopped.

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Cross References

Amos 1:4So I will send fire down on the house of Hazael and burn up Ben-Hadad's fortresses.

Zechariah 9:4But look at what will happen. The Lord will take away everything they have, and knock down their strong defenses into the sea. The city will be burned down.

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 →

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