Amos 1:12

But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah. BUT I WILL SEND A FIRE UPON TEMAN - a city of Edom, called from a grandson of Esau (; ; Obadiah 1:8). Situated five miles from Petra; south of the present Wady Musa. Its people were famed for "wisdom," (, "Is wisdom no more in Teman?") BOZRAH - a city of Edom (): literally, 'which cuts off approach' (Pusey). Selah or Petra is not mentioned, as it had been overthrown by Amaziah, and named Joktheel-`which God subdued' ...

He says in the last place, _I will send fire on Teman, to consume the palaces of Bozrah _By fire he ever means any kind of destruction. But he compares God’s vengeance to a burning fire. We know that when fire has once taken hold, not only on a house, but on a whole city, there is no remedy. So now the Prophet says, that God’s vengeance would be dreadful, that it would consume whatever hatred there was among them:_I will _then _send fire on Teman_; which, as it is well known, was the first city of Idumea. Let us now proceed —...

Verse Amos 1:12. _TEMAN-BOZRAH._] Principal cities of Idumea....

BUT - (And I, in My turn and as a consequence of these sins) will send a fire upon Teman “Teman,” say Eusebius and Jerome , “was a country of the princes of Edom, which had its name from Teman son of Eliphaz, son of Esau Genesis 36:11, Genesis 36:15. But even to this day there is a village, called Teman, about 5 (Eusebius says 15) miles from Petra, where there is also a Roman garrison, from which place was Eliphaz, king of the Themanites.” It is, however, probably the district which is meant, of which Bozra was then the capital. For Amos when speaking of cities, uses some word to express this, as “the palaces of Benhadad, the wall of Gaza, of Tyrus, of Rabbah;” here he simply uses the name Teman, as he does those of Moab and Judah. Amos does not mention Petra, or Selah, for A

EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 2:16 PART I. APPROACHING JUDGMENT. VERSE 1-CH. 2:3 _§ 1. The nations bordering on the Holy Land are solemnly summoned to judgment._ AMOS 1:1, AMOS 1:2 Heading of the book, with short summary of its contents. AMOS 1:1 Heading. THE WORDS. So Jeremiah begins his prophecy (Jeremiah 1:1), and the writer of Ecclesiastes (Ecclesiastes 1:1). That the words am not thos

BUT I WILL SEND A FIRE UPON TEMAN,.... A principal city of Edom or Idumea, so called from Teman a grandson of Esau, Genesis 36:11. Jerom x says there was in his time a village called Theman, five miles distant from the city Petra, and had a Roman garrison; and so says Eusebius y; who places it in Arabia Petraea; it is put for the whole country; it signifies the south. So the Targum renders it, "a fire in the south.'' The "fire" signifies an enemy that should be sent into it, and destroy it: this was Nebuchadnezzar, who, as Josephus z says, five years after the destruction of Jerusalem led his army into Coelesyria, and took it; and fought against the Ammonites and Moabites, and very probably at the same time against the Edomites: WHICH SHALL DEVOUR THE PALACES OF BOZRAH; another famous city of the Edomites; there was one of this name in Moab; eit

ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED AGAINST THE NATIONS, JUDAH, AND ISRAEL CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Amos 1:1) _ 2. Damascus (Amos 1:3) 3. Philistia (Amos 1:6) 4. Tyre (Amos 1:9) 5. Edom (Amos 1:11) 6. Ammon (Amos 1:13) Amos 1:1. It has been pointed out that Amos does not say like so many of the other prophets, “the Word of the Lord which came un

TEMAN. Compare Jeremiah 49:7; Obadiah 1:9. I-lab. Amos 3:3. Elipbaz was. Ternanite (Job 2:11, &c.) BOZRAH. Now _el Buseirah_, south-east of the Dead Sea....

EDOM. The home of the Edomites was S. of the Dead Sea, immediately on the E. of the deep depression, which extends from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Akabah, in ancient times the S. part of the -Arábah (comp. on Amos 6:14), now the valley of the -Arăbah. The capital of Edom was Sela (Petra), remarkably situated in a hollow, shut in by mountain-cliffs and accessible only through two narrow defiles (cf. Robinson, _B.R_[131] ii. 128 ff.; _Sinai and Palestine_, p. 87 ff.; Hull, _Mount Seir_, p. 85 ff.; Pusey, _Minor Prophets_, on Obadiah, p. 235). Though now desolate, and inhabited only by wandering Bedawin, Edom was in ancient times fertile and prosperous; and its people were quite one of the more considerable and powerful of Israel's neighbours. Much jealousy and rivalry, breaking out at times into open hostilities, prevailed between the two nations: this is prefigured in the story...

_TRANSGRESSIONS OF TYRUS AND EDOM -- AMOS 1:9-12:_ The Lord promises to punish Tyrus or Phoenicia for countless sins or transgressions. Nations that live beside each other must be brotherly in order to continue to exist. This had previously been the case with Tyrus and Israel. "And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house." (2 Samuel 5:11) Now the people of Tyrus had dragged off God's people from town after town and sold them to the Edomites. God promised to send fire to burn down the fortresses of the city of Tyre along with its palaces. The LORD also promised to punish Edom for her countless transgressions. He would not relent or change his mind about their punishment. God had said that Esau and his descendants would