Amos 1:4
I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, 1 and it will devour the fortresses of Ben Hadad. 1
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But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
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Cross References
Judges 9:57God made all the evil of the men of Shechem turn back on their own heads and on them came the curse of Jotham son of Jerub Baal.
1 Kings 20:1Ben Hadad king of Aram gathered all his army together. There were thirty-two lesser kings with him, and horses and chariots. He went up, besieged Samaria and fought against it.
2 Kings 8:7Elisha came to Damascus where Ben Hadad the king of Aram was sick. The king was told, “The man of God has come here.”
2 Kings 13:25Jehoash son of Jehoahaz took back from Ben Hadad son of Hazael the cities that had been taken from Jehoahaz his father by war. Jehoash attacked him three times, and he recovered those cities of Israel.
Jeremiah 17:27But if you do not listen to me—to set apart the Sabbath day and to not carry heavy loads and to not enter the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day—then I will light a fire in its gates, and it will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem, and it cannot be put out.”
Ezekiel 30:8Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I set fire in Egypt, and when all of her helpers are destroyed.
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 →