Amos 7:4
Thus has the Lord GOD showed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
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3The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, says the LORD.
5Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I plead to you: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
Cross References
Leviticus 10:2And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the low hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Isaiah 66:15For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Jeremiah 21:12O house of David, thus says the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Joel 2:30And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Amos 1:7But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour 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 →