Amos 1:7
So will I send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour the palaces thereof;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 recompense, against the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.
2 Kings 18:8He smote the Philistines unto Gaza and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
Psalms 75:7(75-8) For God is judge; He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.
Jeremiah 25:18Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them an appalment, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
Amos 1:4So will I send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad;
Zechariah 9:5Ashkelon shall see it, and fear, Gaza also, and shall be sore pained, and Ekron, for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon 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 →