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Amos 1:10
but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof, the prophecy being fulfilled during the Babylonian and Grecian conquests.
but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof, the prophecy being fulfilled during the Babylonian and Grecian conquests.
Verse Amos 1:10. _I WILL SEND A FIRE ON THE WALL OF TYRUS_] The destructive _fire_ or _siege_ by Nebuchadnezzar, which lasted _thirteen_ years, and ended in the destruction of this ancient city; see...
I WILL SEND A FIRE UPON THE WALL OF TYRE - Tyre had long ere this become tributary to Assyria. Asshur-ban-ipal (about 930 b.c.,) records his “taking tribute from the kings of all the chief Phoenician...
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 F. ON TYRE. Possibly an exilic or post-exilic insertion. The mention of the Phœ nicians would not evoke such hostile feelings, but they too had repeatedly perpetrated crimes that called aloud...
TYRE, the great commercial city of the North, next receives her doom from the prophet's lips. Tyre, as the most important of the Phoenician cities, is taken as representing Phoenicia generally. For d...
_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 t...
PUNISHMENT PROMISED, THE HEATHEN NATIONSGAZA AND TYRE TEXT: Amos 1:6-10 6 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gaza, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because t...
But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof. BUT I WILL SEND A FIRE ON THE WALL OF TYRUS - (cf. ; ; notes, Isaiah 23:1, "the burden of Tyre," etc., etc.) The...
THE SINS OF ISRAEL'S NEIGHBOURS AND THE PUNISHMENTS WHICH SHOULD FOLLOW 1. We may paraphrase the main part of the sentence thus: 'The words of Amos, describing what he saw in prophetic vision.' HERDM...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ ABOUT THIS BOOK WHEN AMOS LIVED Amos came from Tekoa, about 12 miles south of Jerusalem. He was a *shepherd and he looked after...
וְ שִׁלַּ֥חְתִּי אֵ֖שׁ בְּ חֹ֣ומַת צֹ֑ר וְ
ATROCITIES AND ATROCITIES Amos 1:3 - Amos 2:1 LIKE all the prophets of Israel, Amos receives oracles for foreign nations. Unlike them, however, he arranges these oracles not after, but before, his in...
OUTSIDE NATIONS SHALL SUFFER JUDGMENT Amos 1:1-10 Amos opens his prophecies with predictions against neighboring peoples, that Israel may be led to appreciate her guilt and to bear the approach of Go...
The second verse of this first chapter gives the key to the book. Jehovah declared Himself in judgment. Beginning at the point farthest from Israel, the prophet delivered his messages to the nations a...
_Thereof. Salmanasar besieged it five years (Menander) and Nabuchodonosor thirteen, when he destroyed Tyre, Ezechiel xxvi._...
The conduct of Tyre was base towards Israel, and now Tyrus comes to be reckoned with. The breach of the brotherly covenant, seems to have an allusion to the friendly compact which had been made betwee...
The Chapter closeth with the judgment of the children of Ammon; and a solemn one it is. When the Lord comes to reckon with his enemies, how tremendous his judgments are! REFLECTIONS READER! we shall...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the...
But he adds, that _God would send a fire on the wall of Tyrus to consume its palaces. _When this happened, cannot with certainty be known: for though Tyrus was demolished by Alexander, as Gaza also wa...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. In the outset Jehovah, proclaiming His own rights from the place of His own throne, roars from Zion and utters His voice from Jerusalem. Afterwards,...
BUT I WILL SEND A FIRE ON THE WALL OF TYRUS,.... An enemy to destroy the walls of it: this was done either by Shalmaneser king of the Assyrians, in the times of Eulaeus king of the Tyrians, of whose e...
But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof. Ver. 10. _Therefore I will send a fire upon the walls of Tyrus_] This was fulfilled shortly after in the war that...
Amos 1:6-13. The injuriousness and cruelty of the Philistines, Tyrians, and Edomites, towards the children of Israel, that is here spoken of, and for which God's judgments are, by the prophet, denounc...
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Amos 1:10 send H7971 (H8765) fire H784 wall H2346 Tyre H6865 devour H398 (H8804) palaces H759...
3). YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON TYRE (AMOS 1:9). Israel's third most dangerous enemy was Tyre. They had in the past had a close treaty relationship with Israel (e.g. under David, Solomon and Ahab. See 2 Samuel...
CONTENTS: Judgments pronounced upon surrounding peoples Syria, Tyre, Edom, Ammon. CHARACTERS: God, Amos, Uzziah, Jeroboam, Hazael, Benhadad. CONCLUSION: The God of Israel is the God of all the earth...
Amos 1:1. _The words of Amos,_ written with his own hand. He does not name his parents, because they were plain country people. He was himself _among the herdmen of Tekoa,_ a small city twelve miles s...
_I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof._ THE DIVINE JUDGMENT ON TYRE To follow out the accomplishment of the prophecies respecting Tyre, under the conduct of...
AMOS 1:2 Oracles of Judgment. Amos delivers a series of messages from God showing that neither Israel’s neighbors (Amos 1:2) nor Israel herself (Amos 2:6) can es
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 1:9 TYRE was northwest of Israel, on the Mediterranean coast. With its fine harbor and easily defended island fortress, it dominated the sea trade of the eastern Mediterranean (see...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 1:9. Tyrus] The crime here is sale of prisoners, like the preceding, to Edom; a violation of the covenant of David and Solomon with the king of Tyre (2 Samuel 5:11; 1 Kings 5:1;...
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 o
Let's turn now to the book of Amos. In the first verse of Amos he introduces himself. These are the words of Amos, who was among the herdmen [or a shepherd] at Tekoa (Amos 1:1), Now Tekoa is a little...
Amos 1:1; Amos 2:1; Ezekiel 26:12; Zechariah 9:4...