Amos 1:4
So I will send fire down on the house of Hazael and burn up Ben-Hadad's fortresses.
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In The King James Version
But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
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Cross References
Judges 9:57He also repaid the people of Shechem for their evil, and the curse of Jotham, son of Jerub-baal, came down upon them.
1 Kings 20:1Ben-hadad, king of Aram, called up his entire army. Together with thirty-two kings and their assembled horses and chariots, he marched to besiege Samaria, to fight against it.
2 Kings 8:7Elisha went to Damascus when Ben-hadad king of Aram was ill. The king was informed, “The man of God has arrived in town.”
2 Kings 13:25Then Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz, recovered from Ben-hadad son of Hazael, the towns that Hazael had captured from his father Jehoahaz. Jehoash defeated Ben-hadad three times, and so recaptured the Israelite towns.
Jeremiah 17:27But if you refuse to listen to me and keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will set its gates alight with a fire that can't be put out, and it will burn down Jerusalem's fortresses.
Ezekiel 30:8Then they will acknowledge that I am the Lord when I set fire to Egypt and all its allies are crushed.
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 →