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Amos 1

Amos 1:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Butn I will send
shalach (Hebrew #7971)
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, X earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
Pronounce: shaw-lakh'
Origin: a primitive root
a fire
'esh (Hebrew #784)
fire (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.
Pronounce: aysh
Origin: a primitive word
on the wall
chowmah (Hebrew #2346)
a wall of protection
KJV usage: wall, walled.
Pronounce: kho-maw'
Origin: feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join
of Gaza
`Azzah (Hebrew #5804)
strong; Azzah, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Azzah, Gaza.
Pronounce: az-zaw'
Origin: feminine of 5794
, which shall devour
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
the palaces
'armown (Hebrew #759)
a citadel (from its height)
KJV usage: castle, palace. Compare 2038.
Pronounce: ar-mone'
Origin: from an unused root (meaning to be elevated)
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Zeph. 2:4• 4For Gazah shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon shall be a desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up. (Zeph. 2:4)

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Palace,
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Cross References

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I will.
Deut. 32:35,41‑43• 35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, For the time when their foot shall slip. For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that shall come upon them make haste.
 41If I have sharpened my gleaming sword, And my hand take hold of judgment, I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.
 42Mine arrows will I make drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; I will make them drunk with the blood of the slain and of the captives, With the head of the princes of the enemy.
 43Shout for joy, ye nations, with his people, For he avengeth the blood of his servants, And rendereth vengeance to his enemies, And maketh atonement for his land, for his people. (Deut. 32:35,41‑43)
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Psa. 75:7‑8• 7For God is the judge; he putteth down one and exalteth another.
 8For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and it foameth with wine, it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same; yea, the dregs thereof shall all the wicked of the earth drain off, and drink. (Psa. 75:7‑8)
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Psa. 94:1‑5• 1O *God of vengeances, Jehovah, *God of vengeances, shine forth;
 2Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth, render the reward to the proud.
 3How long shall the wicked, O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked triumph?
 4How long shall they utter and speak insolence--all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
 5They crush thy people, O Jehovah, and afflict thine inheritance; (Psa. 94:1‑5)
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Zeph. 2:4• 4For Gazah shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon shall be a desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up. (Zeph. 2:4)
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Rom. 12:19• 19not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance belongs to me, *I* will recompense, saith the Lord. (Rom. 12:19)
a fire.
Amos 1:4• 4And I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad. (Amos 1:4)
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2 Kings 18:8• 8He smote the Philistines unto Gazah and its borders, from the watchmen's tower to the fortified city. (2 Kings 18:8)
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2 Chron. 26:6• 6And he went forth and fought against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines. (2 Chron. 26:6)
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Jer. 25:18‑20• 18Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a waste, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
 19Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
 20and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gazah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; (Jer. 25:18‑20)
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Jer. 47:1• 1The word of Jehovah that came to the prophet Jeremiah concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh smote Gazah. (Jer. 47:1)
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Zech. 9:5‑7• 5Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gazah also, and she shall be greatly pained; Ekron also, for her expectation shall be put to shame: and the king shall perish from Gazah, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
 6And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines;
 7and I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth; but he that remaineth, he also shall belong to our God, and shall be as a leader in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite. (Zech. 9:5‑7)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And I will send a fire on the wall of Gazah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.