Amos 2:5

Green's Literal Translation

And I shall send a fire against Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
So I will start a fire in Judah that will destroy the high towers 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."

New English Translation
So I will set Judah on fire, and it will consume Jerusalem's fortresses."

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.

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."

English Standard Version
So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds 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.

English Revised Version
but I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore will I send a fire vpon Iudah, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Ierusalem.

George Lamsa Translation
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces 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."

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.

Good News Translation
So I will send fire upon Judah and burn down the fortresses of Jerusalem."

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.

Lexham English Bible
So I will send a fire against Judah and it will devour the citadel fortresses 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.

New King James Version
But I will send a fire upon Judah, And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."

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."

Contextual Overview

¹ So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime. ² But I will send a fire against Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth. And Moab shall die with uproar, with a war cry, with the sound of the ram's horn. ³ And I will cut off the judge in its midst, and I will kill all his rulers with him, says Jehovah. ⁴ So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn back from it; for they despised the Law of Jehovah, and they have not kept His statutes. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray. ⁵ And I shall send a fire against Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. ⁶ So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals, ⁷ panting for the dust of the earth to be on the head of the helpless, and turning aside the way of the humble. And a man and his father will go in to the same girl, in order to profane the name of My holiness. ⁸ And they will stretch out beside every altar, and on garments taken in pledge. And they will drink wine of those being fined in the house of 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
And out of the ground Jehovah God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. The Tree of Life was also in the middle of the garden; also the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first was Pishon; it is the one surrounding all the land of Havilah where gold is ;

Genesis 2:12
the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium gum resin, and the onyx stone.

Genesis 3:23
Jehovah God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground out of which he was taken.

Genesis 4:2
And she continued to bear his brother, Abel. And Abel became a shepherd of flocks. And Cain became a tiller of the ground.

Genesis 4:12
When you till the ground, it will not again give its strength to you. You shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth.

Job 5:10
giving rain on the face of the earth and sending water on the face of the field;

Psalms 104:14
He causes the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for the service of man, to bring food out of the earth.

Psalms 135:7
He causes the vapors to rise from the end of the earth; He makes lightnings for the rain; He brings the wind out of His storehouses;

Jeremiah 14:22
Among the vanities of the nations are there any who make rain fall? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O Jehovah our God? Then we will wait for You; for You do 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.