Amos 7:4
Thus hath Adonoi Hashem showed unto me; and, hinei, Adonoi Hashem called to punish with eish, and it devoured the tehom rabbah (great deep), and did devour the chelek (portion).
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
3Hashem relented for this: 1 It shall not be, saith Hashem.
Cross References
Leviticus 10:2And there went out eish (fire) from the presence of Hashem, and devoured them, and they died before Hashem.
Deuteronomy 32:22For an eish is kindled in Mine anger, 1 and shall burn unto the lowest Sheol, 1 and shall devour Eretz and her increase, 1 and set on fire the foundations of harim. 1
Isaiah 66:15For, hinei, Hashem will come with eish, 1 with His merkavot like the whirlwind, 1 to render His anger in fury, 1 His rebuke in flames of eish. 1
Jeremiah 21:12O Bais Dovid, thus saith Hashem: 1 Execute mishpat in the boker, 1 and save him that is robbed 1 out of the yad oshek (hand of the oppressor), 1 lest My chemah (fury) go out like eish, 1 and burn that none can quench it, 1 because of the wickedness of your deeds. 1
Amos 1:7But I will send an eish on the chomah (wall) of Azah (Gaza), 1 which shall devour the fortresses thereof; 1
Matthew Henry on Amos 7:2-10
Intercession for Israel; Ruin of Israel Foretold. ( b. c. 785.) 1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. 2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord God , forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. 3 The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord . 4 Thus hath… Read the whole commentary →