Amos 1:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour its palaces:

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  • 2 Kgs 18:8 : 8 He struck the Philistines, even to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
  • Jer 47:1 : 1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza.
  • Amos 1:4 : 4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.
  • Zeph 2:4 : 4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be uprooted.
  • Zech 9:5-7 : 5 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron, for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited. 6 A mixed race shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. 7 I will take away his blood from his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he who remains, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be like a governor in Judah, and Ekron like a Jebusite.
  • Rom 12:19 : 19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, 'Vengeance is mine; I will repay,' says the Lord.
  • 2 Chr 26:6 : 6 And he went out and fought against the Philistines, breaking down the wall of Gath, the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities around Ashdod among the Philistines.
  • Ps 75:7-8 : 7 But God is the judge; he puts down one and exalts another. 8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture, and he pours out the same; but the dregs of it, all the wicked of the earth shall drain and drink.
  • Ps 94:1-5 : 1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself. 2 Lift up yourself, you judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. 3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? 4 How long shall they utter and speak arrogant things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? 5 They break in pieces your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage.
  • Jer 25:18-20 : 18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is this day; 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; 20 And all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
  • Deut 32:35 : 35 To me belong vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slip in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
  • Deut 32:41-43 : 41 If I sharpen my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward those who hate me. 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenge upon the enemy. 43 Rejoice, O nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful to his land, and to his people.

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  • Amos 1:8
    82%

    8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon, and I will turn My hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, says the Lord GOD.

  • Amos 1:4-6
    3 verses
    82%

    4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.

    5 I will also break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir, says the LORD.

    6 Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:

  • Amos 2:5
    80%

    5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

  • Amos 1:10
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    10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, which shall devour its palaces.

  • Amos 1:14
    78%

    14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:

  • Zech 9:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4 Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and will strike her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

    5 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron, for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

  • Amos 1:12
    76%

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

  • Jer 47:1
    76%

    1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza.

  • Zeph 2:4
    76%

    4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be uprooted.

  • Jer 17:27
    75%

    27 But if you will not listen to me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

  • Ezek 15:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Like the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

    7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.

    8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says the Lord GOD.

  • Hos 8:14
    74%

    14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities, but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces there.

  • Jer 22:7
    73%

    7 And I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

  • Jer 34:22
    72%

    22 Behold, I will command, says the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

  • Judg 1:18
    71%

    18 Also Judah took Gaza with its territory, and Askelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.

  • Ezek 22:31
    71%

    31 Therefore have I poured out My indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, says the Lord GOD.

  • Ezek 21:31
    71%

    31 And I will pour out my indignation upon you, I will blow against you in the fire of my wrath, and deliver you into the hands of brutish men, skillful to destroy.

  • Jer 49:27
    71%

    27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad.

  • 2 Kgs 18:8
    71%

    8 He struck the Philistines, even to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

  • Jer 21:10
    71%

    10 For I have set my face against this city for harm and not for good, says the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

  • Isa 14:31
    71%

    31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; you, whole Philistia, are dissolved: for there will come from the north a smoke, and none will be alone in his appointed times.

  • Jer 5:14
    70%

    14 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

  • Judg 1:8
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    8 Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and taken it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

  • Jer 21:14
    70%

    14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, says the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all things around it.

  • Jer 7:20
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    20 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, my anger and my fury will be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it will burn, and will not be quenched.

  • Lam 4:11
    70%

    11 The LORD has accomplished his fury; he has poured out his fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured her foundations.

  • Ezek 5:4
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    4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it a fire shall come forth into all the house of Israel.

  • Isa 31:9
    70%

    9 And he shall pass over to his stronghold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the banner, says the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem.

  • Amos 2:2
    70%

    2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

  • Zech 12:6
    70%

    6 In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people around about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

  • Zeph 1:2-3
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    70%

    2 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, says the LORD.

    3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks along with the wicked; and I will cut off man from the land, says the LORD.

  • Ezek 22:21
    69%

    21 Yes, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst.

  • Ezek 25:15
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    15 Thus says the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have acted by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a spiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;

  • Ezek 30:14
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    14 I will make Pathros desolate, set fire in Zoan, and execute judgments in No.

  • Jer 47:5
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    5 Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?

  • Jer 15:14
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    14 And I will make you to pass with your enemies into a land you do not know: for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn upon you.

  • 2 Chr 36:19
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    19 And they burned the house of God, and tore down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its valuable articles.

  • Ezek 39:6
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    6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among those who dwell carelessly in the isles; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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    48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.

  • Ezek 13:15
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    15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall and upon those who daubed it with untempered mortar, and will say to you, 'The wall is no more, nor are those who daubed it.'

  • Amos 7:4
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    4 Thus the Lord GOD showed to me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and consumed a part.

  • Zeph 1:18
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    18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of His jealousy: for He will make a speedy end of all those that dwell in the land.

  • Isa 10:16
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    16 Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory, he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

  • Ezek 30:7
    69%

    7 They will be desolate among the countries that are desolate, and her cities will be among the cities that are wasted.