Amos 1:7
Therefore will I sende a fire vpon the walles of Azzah, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 32:35Vengeance and recompence are mine: their foote shall slide in due time: for the day of their destruction is at hand, and the things that shall come vpon them, make haste.
2 Kings 18:8He smote the Philistims vnto Azzah, and the coastes thereof, from the watch towre vnto the defensed citie.
Psalms 75:7But God is the iudge: he maketh lowe and he maketh hie.
Jeremiah 25:18Euen Ierusalem, and the cities of Iudah, and the Kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them desolate, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse, as appeareth this day:
Amos 1:4Therefore will I sende a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Ben-hadad.
Zechariah 9:5Ashkelon shall see it, and feare, and Azzah also shalbe very sorowfull, and Ekron: for her countenance shalbe ashamed, and the King shall perish from Azzah, and Ashkelon 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 →