Monday, October 5, 2015

AMOS Analysis 1:10

Walk through Amos, verse by verse, with the great Bible Commentaries of Matthew Henry (1662 - 1714) & Adam Clarke (1760 - 1832)

1:10

But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof. KJV

{And I shall send fire into the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the houses thereof.} Wycliffe's Bible


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; 
Here is nothing peculiar in the punishment of Tyrus but that the palaces thereof shall be devoured, .... Their merchants were all princes, and their private houses were as palaces;