Amos 1:12

Therefore will I send a fire into Teman,—which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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,

13Thus, saith Yahweh, Because of three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, and because of four, will I not turn it back,—Because of their ripping up the pregnant women of Gilead, that they might enlarge their own boundary,

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Cross References

Genesis 36:33Then died Bela,—and there reigned in his stead, Jobab son of Zerah, from Bozrah.

Isaiah 34:6A sword, hath Yahweh—Glutted with blood Sated with fat,—With the blood of well-fed lambs and he-goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams,—For, a sacrifice, hath Yahweh in Bozrah, Yea a great slaughter in the land of Edom;

Jeremiah 49:13For by myself, have I sworn, Declareth Yahweh, That, Bozrah shall become, an astonishment: a reproach and a desolation, and a contempt,—And all her cities shall become age-abiding desolations.

Jeremiah 49:22Lo! as an eagle, he shall mount and dart, and spread his wings over Bozrah,—So shall the heart of the heroes of Edom, in that day, become as the heart of a woman in her pain.

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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