Amos 7:4
This is what the Lord Yahweh showed me: Look, the Lord Yahweh called on fire to judge. It dried the vast, deep water under the earth and would have devoured the land, also.
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3Yahweh relented concerning this. “It will not happen,” he said.
5But I said, “Lord Yahweh, please stop; how will Jacob survive? For he is so small.”
Cross References
Leviticus 10:2So fire came out from before Yahweh and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled by my anger 1 and is burning to the lowest Sheol; 1 it is devouring the earth and its harvest; 1 it is setting on fire the foundations of the mountains. 1
Isaiah 66:15For look, Yahweh is coming with fire, and his chariots are coming like the windstorm 1 to bring the heat of his anger and his rebuke with flames of fire. 1
Jeremiah 21:12House of David, Yahweh says, 'Bring about justice in the morning. 1 Rescue the one who has been robbed by the hand of the oppressor, 1 or my fury will go out like fire and burn, 1 and there is no one who can quench it, because of your evil deeds. 1
Joel 2:30I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, 1 blood, fire, and pillars of smoke. 1
Amos 1:7I will send fire on the walls of Gaza, 1 and it will devour her fortresses. 1
Matthew Henry on Amos 7:2-10
Intercession for Israel; Ruin of Israel Foretold. ( b. c. 785.) 1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. 2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord God , forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. 3 The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord . 4 Thus hath… Read the whole commentary →