Amos 1:10

Therefore will I send a fire upon the wall of Tyre,—which shall devour the palaces thereof.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.

In Context

9Thus, saith Yahweh, Because of three transgressions of Tyre, and because of four, will I not turn it back,—Because of their delivering up the whole body of exiles to Edom, and they remembered not the brotherly covenant,

11Thus, saith Yahweh, Because of three transgressions of Edom, and because of four, will I not turn it back,—Because he pursued, with the sword, his brother, and stifled his compassions, and his anger tare in pieces evermore, and, his indignation, kept watch perpetually,

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Cross References

Amos 1:4Therefore will send a fire, into the house of Hazael,—which shall devour the palaces of Ben- hadad;

Zechariah 9:4Lo! My Lord, shall dispossess her, and smite, into the sea, her fortress,—and, she herself, in fire, shall be consumed.

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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