Amos 1:7
And I have sent a fire against the wall of Gaza, || And it has consumed her palaces;
Literal Standard Version
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 and retribution [are] Mine, || At the due time—their foot slides; For near is a day of their calamity, || And things prepared for them have hastened.
2 Kings 18:8he has struck the Philistines, even to Gaza and its borders, from a tower of watchers to the fortified city.
Psalms 75:7But God [is] judging, || This He makes low—and this He lifts up.
Jeremiah 25:18Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, || And its kings, its heads, || To give them to ruin, to astonishment, || To hissing, and to reviling, as [at] this day;
Amos 1:4And I have sent a fire against the house of Hazael, || And it has consumed the palaces of Ben-Hadad.
Zechariah 9:5Ashkelon sees and fears, || Also Gaza, and she is exceedingly pained, || Also Ekron—for her expectation dried up, || And a king has perished from Gaza, || And Ashkelon does not remain,
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 →