Amos 1:14

But I will kindle an eish in the chomah (wall) of Rabbah, 1 and it shall devour the fortresses thereof, 1 with war cries in the yom milchamah, 1 with a tempest in the yom sufah (day of the storm); 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:

In Context

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

15And their melech shall go into golus, 1 he and his sarim (princes) together, 1 saith Hashem.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 3:11For only Og Melech HaBashan remained of the remnant of Repha'im; hinei, his bedstead was a bedstead of barzel. Is it not in Rabbah of the Bnei Ammon? Nine regular cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it.

2 Samuel 12:31And he brought forth ha'am that were therein, and put them under saws, and under threshing tools of barzel, and under axes of barzel, and made them go through the brickkilns; and thus did he unto all the towns of the Bnei Ammon. So Dovid and kol haAm returned unto Yerushalayim.

Psalms 83:15As the eish consumeth the forest, 1 and as the flame setteth ablaze harim; 1

Isaiah 30:30And Hashem shall cause His glorious voice to be heard, and shall cause the lowering of His zero'a to be seen, with the indignation of His anger, and with the flame of a devouring eish, with smashing, and tempest, and even barad (stones of hail, hailstones).

Ezekiel 21:25Appoint a derech, that the cherev may come to Rabbah Bnei Ammon, and to Yehudah in fortified Yerushalayim.

Daniel 11:40And at the time of the end shall HaMelech HaNegev butt against him, and HaMelech HaTzafon shall storm against him with chariots, and with parash, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries and shall overflow and pass over.

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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