Amos 1:4
But lI will send ma fire into the house of nHazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
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Deuteronomy 32:41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
Deuteronomy 32:43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
Romans 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Habakkuk 2:9 ¶Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
Habakkuk 2:12 ¶Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Psalms 75:6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
Psalms 75:7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
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Amos 1:7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
Amos 1:10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
Amos 1:12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
Amos 1:14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
Psalms 78:62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
Ezekiel 30:8 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
Jeremiah 49:27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.
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2 Kings 13:24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Ben-hadad his son reigned in his stead.
the Lord, avenger of mine oppressed Israel, Jehovah, as Amo 1:3.
either literally understood, or figuratively, famine, pestilence, wars foreign or intestine, effects of God’s great but just displeasure, which destroys all like fire.
the family, or the material house in which he dwelt, or both; Hazael’s stately dwelling-place should be consumed by fire, and his whole family be cut off.
eat up, so as to leave nothing remaining of either.
the royal palaces, or those that descended from Hazael, and dwelt in them.
whether this were some one of the Syrian kings before Hazael, or the Ben-hadad slain by Hazael, or son and successor to Hazael, is uncertain; nor can we know particularly who this was by this name Ben-hadad, which to the Syrian kings was a common name, as Pharaoh to the ancient Egyptian kings, Caesar to the Roman emperors, and Czar to the Muscovite at this day: three Ben-hadads are mentioned in the books of the Kings, as 1Ki 15:18 2Ki 8:7 13:3.