Amos 1:4

I will cause a fire to burn the palace that King Hazael built and lived in, the fortress where his son King Ben-Hadad also lived.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

In Context

3This is also what Yahweh said to me: “ I will punish the people of Damascus, the capital of Syria, because of the many sins that they have committed; I will not change my mind about punishing them [MTY], because the cruel things that they did to the people of the Gilead region were like [MET] people threshing grain using sledges that have ◄iron teeth/sharp iron nails► in them.

5I will cause the gates of Damascus to be broken down; I will get rid of the king who rules in Aven Valley and the one who rules in Beth Eden. And the people of Syria will be captured and taken to the Kir region where they originally lived.”

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Cross References

Judges 9:57God also punished the men of Shechem for the evil things that they had done. And when those things happened, it fulfilled what Gideon’s son Jotham said when he cursed Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem.

1 Kings 20:1Ben-Hadad, the king of Syria, gathered all his army, and he persuaded 32 other kings to join him with their armies and horses and chariots. They marched to Samaria city, the capital of Israel, and surrounded it, and prepared to attack it.

2 Kings 8:7Elisha went to Damascus, the capital of Syria, when Ben-Hadad, the king of Syria, was very sick. When someone told the king that Elisha was in Damascus,

2 Kings 13:25The army of King Jehoash of Israel defeated the army of King Ben-Hadad three times, and recaptured the cities that Ben-Hadad’s army had captured during the time that Jehoash’s father Jehoahaz was ruling Israel.

Jeremiah 17:27But if you do not pay attention to what I say, and if you refuse to dedicate the Sabbath days to me, and if you continue to carry loads through these gates into the city on Sabbath days, I will burn these gates completely. The fire will spread to the palaces, and no one will be able to put out that fire.”’”

Ezekiel 30:8Then, when I cause everything in Egypt to be burned in fires, and all their allies are defeated, people will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.

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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