Amos 1:7
I will send fire on the walls of Gaza, 1 and it will devour her fortresses. 1
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But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35Vengeance is mine to give, and recompense, 1 at the time when their foot slips; 1 for the day of disaster for them is near, 1 and the things that are to come on them will hurry to happen.” 1
2 Kings 18:8He attacked the Philistines to Gaza and the borders around, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
Psalms 75:7But God is the judge; 1 he brings down and he lifts up. 1
Jeremiah 25:18Jerusalem, the cities of Judah and her kings and officials—to turn them into ruins and something terrifying, and into an object for hissing and cursing, as they are at this present day.
Amos 1:4I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, 1 and it will devour the fortresses of Ben Hadad. 1
Zechariah 9:5Ashkelon will see and be afraid! Gaza also will tremble greatly! Ekron, her hopes will be disappointed! The king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall no longer 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 →