Amos 1:12

And I will send forth a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the foundations of her walls.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

In Context

11Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.

13Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they ripped up the women with child of the Gileadites, that they might widen their coasts.

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Cross References

Genesis 36:33And Bela died; and Jobab, son of Zerah, from Bozrah reigned in his stead.

Isaiah 34:6The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in Edom.

Jeremiah 49:13But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, that we may not hearken to the voice of the Lord;

Jeremiah 49:22Now therefore ye shall perish by sword and by famine, in the place which ye desire to go into to dwell there.

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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