Amos 1:12

But I will send an eish upon Teman, 1 which shall devour the fortresses of Botzrah. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11Thus saith Hashem: 1 For shloshah peysha'im of Edom, even for arba'ah, 1 I will not turn away the punishment thereof; 1 because he did pursue his brother with the cherev, 1 and did cast off all rachamim, 1 and his anger did rage perpetually, 1 and he kept his wrath netzach; 1

13Thus saith Hashem: 1 For shloshah peysha'im of the Bnei Ammon, 1 even for arba'ah, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; 1 because they have ripped open the women with child of Gil'ad, 1 that they might enlarge their border; 1

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Cross References

Genesis 36:33And Bela died, and Yovav Ben Zerach of Botzrah reigned in his place.

Isaiah 34:6The Cherev Hashem (Sword of Hashem ) is filled with dahm, 1 it is gorged with chelev, 1 and with the dahm of lambs and goats, 1 with the chelev of the kidneys of rams; 1 for Hashem hath a zevach in Botzrah, 1 and a tevach gadol in Eretz Edom. 1

Jeremiah 49:13For I have sworn by Myself, saith Hashem, that Botzrah shall become a desolation, a cherpah, a reproach, and a kelalah; and all the towns thereof shall be perpetual ruins. 1

Jeremiah 49:22Hinei, He shall come up and fly like the nesher, and spread His wings over Botzrah; and in that day shall the lev of the Gibborim of Edom be as the lev of an isha in her birth pangs.

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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