Amos 1:10

And I have sent a fire against the wall of Tyre, And it hath consumed her palaces.

Young's Literal Translation

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 said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their delivering up a complete captivity to Edom, And they remembered not the brotherly covenant,

11Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of his pursuing with a sword his brother, And he hath destroyed his mercies, And tear perpetually doth his anger, And his wrath — he hath kept it for ever,

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Cross References

Amos 1:4And I have sent a fire against the house of Hazael, And it hath consumed the palaces of Ben-Hadad.

Zechariah 9:4Lo, the Lord doth dispossess her, And He hath smitten in the sea her force, And she with fire is 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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