Amos 1:7
Therefore will I send a fire upon the wall of Gaza,—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 Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35Unto the days of vengeance and requital: Unto the time their foot shall totter? For, near, is the day of their fate, And their destiny speedeth on.
2 Kings 18:8He, smote the Philistines, as far as Gazah, and her boundaries,—from the watchmen’s tower even to the fortified city.
Psalms 75:7For, God himself, is about to judge, One, he will cast down, Another, he will lift up;
Jeremiah 25:18[to wit said he] —Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and her kings her princes,—making them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a contempt, as at this day;
Amos 1:4Therefore will send a fire, into the house of Hazael,—which shall devour the palaces of Ben- hadad;
Zechariah 9:5Ashkelon, shall see, and fear, Gaza, also, which shall writhe in great anguish, Ekron, also, because abashed is her expectation,—and the king, shall perish, from Gaza, and, Ashkelon, 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 →