Amos 1:7
And I will send forth a fire on the walls of Gaza, and it shall devour its foundations.
LXX2012 (US English)
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 32:35In the day of vengeance + 32:35 Rom 12:19 I will recompense, whenever their foot shall be tripped up; for the day of their destruction is near to them, and the judgments at hand are close upon you.
2 Kings 18:8He struck the Philistines even to Gaza, and to the border of it, from the tower of the watchmen even to the strong city.
Psalms 75:7You are terrible; and who shall withstand you, because of your anger? 1
Amos 1:4And I will send a fire on the house of Azael, and it shall devour the foundations of the son of Ader.
Zechariah 9:5Ascalon shall see, and fear; Gaza also, and shall be greatly pained, and Accaron; for she is ashamed + 9:5 Alex. of her hope. at her trespass; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ascalon shall not be inhabited.
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 →