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Amos 2:5

So I will start a fire in Judah that will destroy the high towers of Jerusalem."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Jerusalem;   The Topic Concordance - Despisement;   Disobedience;   Israel/jews;   Punishment;   Word of God;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Amos;   Monotheism;   Oracles;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Apocalyptic Literature;   Day of the Lord;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jerusalem;   Zion;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Fire (kindle);  

Encyclopedias:

- Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Amos;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore, I will send fire against Judah,and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem.
Hebrew Names Version
But I will send a fire on Yehudah, And it will devour the palaces of Yerushalayim."
King James Version
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
English Standard Version
So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem."
New American Standard Bible
"So I will send fire upon Judah, And it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem."
New Century Version
So I will send fire on Judah, and it will destroy the strong buildings of Jerusalem."
Amplified Bible
"So I will send a fire [of war, conquest, and destruction by the Babylonians] upon Judah And it will devour the strongholds of Jerusalem."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore will I send a fire vpon Iudah, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Ierusalem.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So I will send fire upon Judah And it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem."
Legacy Standard Bible
So I will send fire upon Judah,And it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem."
Berean Standard Bible
So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem."
Contemporary English Version
Now I will send fire on Judah and destroy the fortresses of Jerusalem.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will send fire on Y'hudah, and it will consume the palaces of Yerushalayim.
Darby Translation
And I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
George Lamsa Translation
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
Good News Translation
So I will send fire upon Judah and burn down the fortresses of Jerusalem."
Lexham English Bible
So I will send a fire against Judah and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Jerusalem.
Literal Translation
And I shall send a fire against Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
American Standard Version
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
Bible in Basic English
And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So will I send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
King James Version (1611)
But I will send a fire vpon Iudah, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Ierusalem.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therfore will I send a fire into Iuda, which shall consume the palaces of Hierusalem:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will send a fire on Juda, and it shall devour the foundations of Jerusalem.
English Revised Version
but I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
World English Bible
But I will send a fire on Judah, And it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal sende fier in to Juda, and it schal deuoure the housis of Jerusalem.
Update Bible Version
but I will send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
Webster's Bible Translation
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
New English Translation
So I will set Judah on fire, and it will consume Jerusalem's fortresses."
New King James Version
But I will send a fire upon Judah, And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."
New Living Translation
So I will send down fire on Judah, and all the fortresses of Jerusalem will be destroyed."
New Life Bible
So I will send fire upon Judah, and it will destroy the strong-places of Jerusalem."
New Revised Standard
So I will send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore will I send a fire upon Judah, - which shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will send a fire into Juda, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem.
Revised Standard Version
So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem."
Young's Literal Translation
And I have sent a fire against Judah, And it hath consumed palaces of Jerusalem.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore will I sende a fyre in to Iuda, which shal consume the palaces of Ierusalem.

Contextual Overview

1 This is what the Lord says: "I will definitely punish the people of Moab for the many crimes they did. Moab burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime. 2 So I will start a fire in Moab that will destroy the high towers of Kerioth. There will be terrible shouting and the sounds of a trumpet, and Moab will die. 3 So I will bring an end to the kings of Moab, and I will kill all the leaders of Moab." This is what the Lord said. 4 This is what the Lord says: "I will definitely punish Judah for the many crimes they did. They refused to obey the Lord 's teachings and they did not keep his commands. Their ancestors believed lies, and those same lies caused the people of Judah to stop following God. 5 So I will start a fire in Judah that will destroy the high towers of Jerusalem." 6 This is what the Lord says: "I will definitely punish Israel for the many crimes they have done. They sold honest people for a little silver. They sold the poor for the price of a pair of sandals. 7 They pushed their faces into the ground and walked on them. They stopped listening to suffering people. Fathers and sons had sexual relations with the same woman. They ruined my holy name. 8 They took clothes from the poor, and then they sat on those clothes while worshiping at their altars. They loaned money to the poor, and then they took their clothes as a promise for payment. They made people pay fines and used the money to buy wine for themselves to drink in the temple of their god.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: Jeremiah 17:27, Jeremiah 21:10, Jeremiah 37:8-10, Jeremiah 39:8, Jeremiah 52:13, Hosea 8:14

Reciprocal: Numbers 21:28 - a fire 2 Kings 25:9 - the king's Isaiah 2:13 - General Jeremiah 6:5 - let us destroy Jeremiah 25:18 - Jerusalem Jeremiah 50:32 - kindle Lamentations 2:7 - given up Ezekiel 28:18 - therefore Ezekiel 30:8 - when I Hosea 5:5 - Judah Amos 1:4 - I will Amos 3:11 - and thy Micah 6:9 - Lord's

Cross-References

Genesis 2:9
Then the Lord God caused all the beautiful trees that were good for food to grow in the garden. In the middle of the garden, he put the tree of life and the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil.
Genesis 2:11
The name of the first river was Pishon. This river flowed around the entire country of Havilah.
Genesis 2:12
(There is gold in that country, and that gold is pure. A kind of expensive perfume and onyx are also found there.)
Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God forced the man out of the Garden of Eden to work the ground he was made from.
Genesis 4:2
Eve gave birth again to Cain's brother Abel. Abel became a shepherd, and Cain became a farmer.
Genesis 4:12
Now when you work the soil, the ground will not help your plants grow. You will not have a home in this land. You will wander from place to place."
Job 5:10
He sends rain all over the earth and waters the fields.
Psalms 104:14
You make the grass grow to feed the animals. You provide plants for the crops we grow— the plants that give us food from the earth.
Psalms 135:7
He brings the clouds from the other side of the earth. He sends the lightning and the rain, and he opens the doors to release the winds.
Jeremiah 14:22
Foreign idols don't have the power to bring rain. The sky does not have the power to send down showers of rain. You, the Lord our God, are our only hope. You are the one who made all these things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, Jeremiah 52:13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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” Daniel 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 2:5. 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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