Amos 1:12

but I will send a fire on Teman,and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah."

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In The King James Version

But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

In Context

11Thus says the Lord:"For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four,I will not turn away its punishment;because he pursued his brother with the sword,and cast off all pity,and his anger raged continually,and he kept his wrath forever;

13Thus says the Lord:"For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four,I will not turn away its punishment;because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead,that they may enlarge their border.

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Cross References

Genesis 36:33Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.

Isaiah 34:6The Lord's sword is filled with blood.It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,with the fat of the kidneys of rams;for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Jeremiah 49:13For I have sworn by myself,' says the Lord, 'that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.'"

Jeremiah 49:22Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs."

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 →

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