Amos 1:14

I will light a fire in the walls of Rabbah, 1 and it will devour the palaces, 1 with a shout in the day of battle, 1 with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind. 1

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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

13This is what Yahweh says, 1 “For three sins of the people of Ammon, 1 even for four, 1 I will not turn away punishment, 1 because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, 1 that they may enlarge their borders. 1

15Their king will go into captivity, 1 he and his officials together,” 1 says Yahweh.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 3:11(For of the remnant of the Rephaim, only Og king of Bashan had remained. Look! His bed was a bed of iron. Was it not in Rabbah, where the descendants of Ammon live? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, the way people measure.)

2 Samuel 12:31He brought out the people who were in the city and forced them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes; he also made them work at brick kilns. David required all the cities of the people of Ammon to do this labor. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.

Psalms 83:15Chase them with your strong wind, 1 and terrify them with your windstorm. 1

Isaiah 30:30Yahweh will make the splendor of his voice heard and show the motion of his arm 1 in storming anger and flames of fire, with windstorm, rainstorm, and hailstones. 1

Ezekiel 21:25As for you, profane and wicked ruler of Israel, whose day of punishment has come, and whose time of committing iniquity has ended, 1

Daniel 11:40At the time of the end the king of the South will attack. The king of the North will storm against him with chariots and horsemen, and with many ships. He will go against lands, flood them, and pass through.

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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