Amos 7:4
Thus also hath the Lord God shewed vnto me, and behold, the Lord God called to iudgement by fire, and it deuoured the great deepe, and did eate vp a part.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
3So the Lord repented for this. It shall not be, saith the Lord.
5Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseeche thee: who shall raise vp Iaakob? for he is small.
Cross References
Leviticus 10:2Therefore a fire went out from the Lord, and deuoured them: so they dyed before the Lord.
Deuteronomy 32:22For fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burne vnto the bottome of hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountaines.
Isaiah 66:15For beholde, the Lord will come with fire, and his charets like a whirlewinde, that he may recompence his anger with wrath, and his indignation with the flame of fire.
Jeremiah 21:12O house of Dauid, thus saith the Lord, Execute iudgement in the morning, and deliuer the oppressed out of the hande of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire and burne, that none can quench it, because of the wickednes of your workes.
Joel 2:30And I will shewe wonders in the heauens and in the earth: blood and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Amos 1:7Therefore will I sende a fire vpon the walles of Azzah, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof.
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 →