Amos 2:5

Bible in Basic English

And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem.

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.

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

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 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because he had the bones of the king of Edom burned to dust. ² And I will send a fire on Moab, burning up the great houses of Kerioth: and death will come on Moab with noise and outcries and the sound of the horn: ³ And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord. ⁴ These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way. ⁵ And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem. ⁶ These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes; ⁷ Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name: ⁸ By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.

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 earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the land of Havilah where there is gold.

Genesis 2:12
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken.

Genesis 4:2
Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer.

Genesis 4:12
No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.

Job 5:10
Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:

Psalms 104:14
He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

Psalms 135:7
He makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes thunder-flames for the rain; he sends out the winds from his store-houses.

Jeremiah 14:22
Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done 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.