Amos 1:10

So I will send fire on the walls of Tyre. It will devour her palaces.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

9The Lord says: For Tyre’s three crimes – no, four! – I will not rescind my judgment. They carried away captive a whole people into exile in Edom, and did not remember the brotherly covenant.

11The Lord says: For Edom’s three crimes – no, four! – I will not rescind my judgment. They pursued their relatives with the sword, stilled their pity, cherished their anger continually, retained their fury forever.

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Cross References

Amos 1:4Therefore I will send fire on Hazael’s house, it will devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

Zechariah 9:4But now the Lord will dispossess her, cast down her rampart into the sea. She will be consumed in 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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