Amos 1:10

And I will send a fire against the walls of Tyre, which shall devour her palaces.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because they delivered up the exiles in full numbers to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant;

11Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because he pursued with the sword his brother, and disregarded his mercy, and his anger tore in pieces continually, and he kept his wrath for ever:

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Cross References

Amos 1:4And I will send a fire into the house of Chazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

Zechariah 9:4Behold, the Lord will drive her out, and he will strike down her power into the sea; and she herself shall be devoured with fire.

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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