Amos 1:7
But I will send an eish on the chomah (wall) of Azah (Gaza), 1 which shall devour the fortresses thereof; 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 32:35To Me belongeth nakam (vengeance) and recompence; 1 their foot shall slip in due time; 1 for the Yom of their calamity is at hand, 1 and the things that shall come upon them make haste. 1
2 Kings 18:8He struck down the Pelishtim, even unto Azah (Gaza), and the territories thereof, from the migdal notzrim to the fortified city.
Psalms 75:7For promotion cometh lo (not) from the east, 1 nor from the west, nor from the desert. 1
Jeremiah 25:18Namely, Yerushalayim, and the towns of Yehudah, and the melachim thereof, and the sarim thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a kelalah (curse); as it is this day;
Amos 1:4But I will send an eish onto Bais Chazael, 1 which shall devour the fortresses of Ben-Hadad. 1
Zechariah 9:5Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; 1 Azah (Gaza) also shall see it, 1 and tremble greatly, 1 and Ekron; for her hope shall be put to shame; 1 and Melech shall perish out of Azah (Gaza), 1 and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited. 1
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 →