but I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”
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but I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”
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But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
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So will I send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
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Passages linked to Amos 2:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 17:27 But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will not be quenched.” ’ ”
- Hosea 8:14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”
- Jeremiah 21:10 For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good,” says Yahweh. “It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.” ’
- Jeremiah 37:8-10 The Chaldeans will come again, and fight against this city. They will take it and burn it with fire.” ’ “Yahweh says, ‘Don’t deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely depart from us;” for they will not depart. For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and only wounded men remained among them, they would each rise up in his tent and burn this city with fire.’ ”
- Jeremiah 39:8 The Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 52:13 He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain We now see what sort of crime is that…
We now see what sort of crime is that of which the Prophet speaks. At last a threatening follows, “The Lord saith, Fire will I send on Judah, which shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.’ But all this we have already explained. Let us now proceed —
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Amo 2:5 But I will send a fire upon…
Amo 2:5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
Ver. 5. But I will send a fire upon Judah] They shall also bear the punishment of their iniquities; yet, is it not said, as Amo 2:2, that Judah shall "die with tumult?" &c. God will make a difference in his dealings with his own and others, his sons and his slaves; these shall totally and finally be consumed at once, Nah 1:9, not so the saints. The remnants of the Philistines shall perish, Amo 1:8. But of Judah a remnant shall be still reserved, for royal use, Isa 11:11; Isa 11:16.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain I will send a fire: see Amo 1:4.
I will send a fire: see Amo 1:4.
Judah; the kingdom of the two tribes; Benjamin is to be included with Judah, as elsewhere hath been already often observed. It shall devour the palaces: see Amo 1:4.
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Jerusalem; the chief city of Judah’s kingdom, the city of God, where was the temple of God, and where were the seats of judicature; the holy city, but now to be destroyed for its sins, as well as other incorrigible nations. Now this was fulfilled by Nebuchadnezzar, about two hundred years after this prophecy of Amos.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But I will send a fire upon Judah,.... An…
But I will send a fire upon Judah,.... An enemy, Nebuchadnezzar, who should burn, waste, and destroy, all that were in his way:
and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem; the chief city of Judah, the royal city, where stood the temple, the palace of the most High, and the palaces of the king and his nobles; these were burnt with fire when it was taken by the Chaldean army, about two hundred years after this prophecy, Jer 52:13.
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Verse 5. I will send a fire upon Judah] This fire was the war made upon the Jews by Nebuchadnezzar, which terminated with the sackage and burning of Jerusalem and its palace the temple.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain I will send a fire upon Judah - All…
I will send a fire upon Judah - All know now, how Jerusalem, its temple, and its palaces perished by fire, first by Nebuchadnezzar, then by the Romans. Yet some two centuries passed, before that first destruction came. The ungodly Jews flattered themselves that it would never come. So we know that a “fiery stream” Dan 7:10 will issue and come forth from Him; “a fire” that “consumeth to destruction” Job 31:12, all who, whether or no they are in the body of the Church, are not of the heavenly Jerusalem; dead members in the body which belongs to the Living Head. And it will not the less come, because it is not regarded. Rather, the very condition of all God’s judgments is, to be disregarded and to come, and then most to come, when they are most disregarded.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Fire. Under Joathan, Rasin, &c., invaded the country. Achaz…
Fire. Under Joathan, Rasin, &c., invaded the country. Achaz increased the misery, by applying to the Assyrians. (Calmet)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain a fire--Nebuchadnezzar.
a fire--Nebuchadnezzar.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5. But I will send a fire upon Judah,…
5. But I will send a fire upon Judah, &c.] hence, with verbal variations, Jer_17:27 b. In the case of Judah, Amos’s threat did not take effect for more than a century and a half: the ‘fire’ did not ‘devour the palaces of Jerusalem’ until it was taken by the Chaldaeans in b.c. 586 (2Ki_25:9). On the authenticity of these two verses, see p. 117 f.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (5) Judah.—Such high privilege does not involve immunity from…
(5) Judah.—Such high privilege does not involve immunity from punishment. Judah shall be chastised with the same penalty as Edom, Philistia, Ammon, and Moab.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans is here…
The destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans is here briefly foretold (Jer_17:27; Hos_8:14; 2Ki_25:9, 2Ki_25:10)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 2:5 Judah’s paganism brought the same punishment as the…
2:5 Judah’s paganism brought the same punishment as the sins of its pagan neighbors: fire (1:4, 7, 10, 12, 14; 2:2) that would destroy Jerusalem. The Babylonians burned Jerusalem when they captured it in 586 BC (see 2 Kgs 25:9; Neh 2:17; 4:2).
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