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Amos 1:12

So I will start a fire at Teman that will destroy the high towers of Bozrah."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bozrah;   Edomites;   Fire;   Palace;   Revenge;   Teman;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Edomites, the;   Malice;   Revenge;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bozrah;   City;   Sela;   Teman;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bozrah;   Teman;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bozrah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Mibzar;   Teman;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Day of the Lord;   Teman;   Uz;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bozrah ;   Teman, Temani, Temanites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Amos;   Bozrah;   Teman;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Boz'rah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Job;   Uz;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Amos (1);   Bozrah;   Choose;   Joel (2);   Philosophy;   Sela;   Teman;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Bozrah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Eliphaz;   Teman;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore, I will send fire against Teman,and it will consume the citadels of Bozrah.
Hebrew Names Version
But I will send a fire on Teman, And it will devour the palaces of Botzrah."
King James Version
But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
English Standard Version
So I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah."
New American Standard Bible
"So I will send fire upon Teman And it will consume the citadels of Bozrah."
New Century Version
So I will send fire on the city of Teman that will even destroy the strong buildings of Bozrah."
Amplified Bible
"So I will send a fire [of war, conquest, and destruction] upon Teman, And it shall consume the citadels of Bozrah [in Edom]."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore will I send a fire vpon Teman, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Bozrah.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So I will send fire upon Teman And it will consume the citadels of Bozrah."
Legacy Standard Bible
So I will send fire upon Teman,And it will consume the citadels of Bozrah."
Berean Standard Bible
So I will send fire upon Teman to consume the citadels of Bozrah."
Contemporary English Version
Now I will send fire to wipe out the fortresses of Teman and Bozrah.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will send fire on Teman, and it will consume the palaces of Botzrah."
Darby Translation
And I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
George Lamsa Translation
But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
Good News Translation
So I will send fire upon the city of Teman and burn down the fortresses of Bozrah."
Lexham English Bible
So I will send a fire against Teman and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Bozrah."
Literal Translation
But I will send a fire against Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
American Standard Version
But I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
Bible in Basic English
And I will send a fire on Teman, burning up the great houses of Bozrah.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So will I send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
King James Version (1611)
But I will send a fire vpon Teman, which shall deuoure the palaces of Bozrah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therfore will I send a fire into Theman, which shal deuoure the palaces of Bozra.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will send forth a fire upon Thaman, and it shall devour the foundations of her walls.
English Revised Version
but I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
World English Bible
But I will send a fire on Teman, And it will devour the palaces of Bozrah."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal sende fier in to Theman, and it schal deuoure the housis of Bosra.
Update Bible Version
but I will send a fire on Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
Webster's Bible Translation
But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
New English Translation
So I will set Teman on fire; fire will consume Bozrah's fortresses."
New King James Version
But I will send a fire upon Teman, Which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah."
New Living Translation
So I will send down fire on Teman, and the fortresses of Bozrah will be destroyed."
New Life Bible
So I will send fire upon Teman, and it will destroy the strong-places of Bozrah."
New Revised Standard
So I will send a fire on Teman, and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore will I send a fire into Teman, - which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
I will send a fire into Theman: and it shall devour the houses of Bosra.
Revised Standard Version
So I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah."
Young's Literal Translation
And I have sent a fire against Teman, And it hath consumed palaces of Bozrah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore will I sende a fyre in to Thema, which shal deuoure the pallaces of Bosra.

Contextual Overview

3 This is what the Lord says: "I will definitely punish the people of Damascus for the many crimes they did. They crushed the people of Gilead with iron threshing tools. 4 So I will start a fire at Hazael's house that will destroy the great palaces of Ben-Hadad. 5 "I will also break open the gates of Damascus and remove the one who sits on the throne in the Valley of Aven. I will remove the symbol of power from Beth Eden, and the Arameans will be defeated and taken back to Kir." This is what the Lord said. 6 This is what the Lord says: "I will definitely punish the people of Gaza for the many crimes they did. They took an entire nation of people and sent them as slaves to Edom. 7 So I will start a fire at the wall of Gaza that will destroy the high towers in Gaza. 8 And I will destroy the one who sits on the throne in Ashdod. I will destroy the king who holds the scepter in Ashkelon. I will punish the people of Ekron. Then the Philistines who are still left alive will die." This is what the Lord God said. 9 This is what the Lord says: "I will definitely punish the people of Tyre for the many crimes they did. They took an entire nation and sent them as slaves to Edom. They did not remember the agreement they had made with their brothers. 10 So I will start a fire at the walls of Tyre that will destroy the high towers in Tyre." 11 This is what the Lord says: "I will definitely punish the people of Edom for their many crimes. Edom chased his brother with the sword, and he showed no mercy. His anger never stopped. He kept tearing and tearing at Israel like a wild animal. 12 So I will start a fire at Teman that will destroy the high towers of Bozrah."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Teman: Genesis 36:11, Jeremiah 49:7, Jeremiah 49:20, Obadiah 1:9, Obadiah 1:10

Bozrah: Genesis 36:33, Isaiah 34:6, Jeremiah 49:13, Jeremiah 49:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 25:23 - the elder Genesis 27:41 - hated Genesis 36:15 - duke Teman Numbers 21:28 - a fire 1 Chronicles 1:36 - Teman 1 Chronicles 1:44 - Bozrah 1 Chronicles 1:45 - Temanites Isaiah 21:11 - me out Isaiah 34:5 - upon Idumea Isaiah 63:1 - Bozrah Jeremiah 17:27 - then Jeremiah 25:21 - Edom Jeremiah 50:32 - kindle Ezekiel 25:12 - taking vengeance Ezekiel 30:8 - when I Ezekiel 32:29 - Edom Ezekiel 35:2 - and prophesy Ezekiel 36:5 - against all Hosea 8:14 - I will send Joel 3:4 - O Tyre Joel 3:19 - Edom Amos 1:4 - I will Micah 2:12 - Bozrah Habakkuk 3:3 - from

Cross-References

Genesis 1:10
God named the dry land "earth," and he named the water that was gathered together "seas." And God saw that this was good.
Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the earth grow grass, plants that make grain, and fruit trees. The fruit trees will make fruit with seeds in it. And each plant will make its own kind of seed. Let these plants grow on the earth." And it happened.
Genesis 1:24
Then God said, "Let the earth produce many kinds of living things. Let there be many different kinds of animals. Let there be large animals and small crawling animals of every kind. And let all these animals produce more animals." And all these things happened.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Now let's make humans who will be like us. They will rule over all the fish in the sea and the birds in the air. They will rule over all the large animals and all the little things that crawl on the earth."
Isaiah 61:11
The earth causes plants to grow, and a garden makes the seeds planted there rise up. In the same way, the Lord God will make goodness and praise grow throughout the nations.
Mark 4:28
Without any help the ground produces grain. First the plant grows, then the head, and then all the grain in the head.
Luke 6:44
Every tree is known by the kind of fruit it produces. You won't find figs on thorny weeds. And you can't pick grapes from thornbushes!
2 Corinthians 9:10
God is the one who gives seed to those who plant, and he gives bread for food. And God will give you spiritual seed and make that seed grow. He will produce a great harvest from your goodness.
Galatians 6:7
If you think you can fool God, you are only fooling yourselves. You will harvest what you plant.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But I will send a fire upon Teman,.... A principal city of Edom or Idumea, so called from Teman a grandson of Esau, Genesis 36:11. Jerom x says there was in his time a village called Theman, five miles distant from the city Petra, and had a Roman garrison; and so says Eusebius y; who places it in Arabia Petraea; it is put for the whole country; it signifies the south. So the Targum renders it,

"a fire in the south.''

The "fire" signifies an enemy that should be sent into it, and destroy it: this was Nebuchadnezzar, who, as Josephus z says, five years after the destruction of Jerusalem led his army into Coelesyria, and took it; and fought against the Ammonites and Moabites, and very probably at the same time against the Edomites:

which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah; another famous city of the Edomites; there was one of this name in Moab; either there were two cities so called, one in Edom, and another in Moab; or rather this city lay, as Jarchi says, between Edom and Moab; and so sometimes is placed to one, and sometimes to another, its it might belong to the one and to the other, according to the event of war. It is the same with Bezer in the wilderness, appointed a Levitical city, and a city of refuge, by Joshua, Joshua 20:8; and belonged to the tribe of Reuben; but being on the borders of that tribe, and of Moab and Edom, it is ascribed to each, as they at different times made themselves masters of it. It is the same with Bostra, which Ptolemy a places in Arabia Petraea; and being on the confines of Arabia Deserts, and surrounded on all sides with wild deserts, it is commonly spoken of as situated in a wilderness, Jerom b speaks of it as a city of Arabia in the desert, to the south, looking to Damascus; and, according to the Persian c geographer, it is four days' journey southward from Damascus; and Eusebius places it at the distance of twenty four miles from Adraa or Edrei. The destruction of this place is prophesied of by Jeremiah, Jeremiah 48:24; and perhaps these prophecies were accomplished when Nebuchadnezzar made war with the Ammonites and Edomites, as before observed; or however in the times of the Maccabees, when Judas Maccabeus took this city, put all the males to the sword, plundered it, and then set fire to it, which literally fulfilled this prophecy,

"Hereupon Judas and his host turned suddenly by the way of the wilderness unto Bosora; and when he had won the city, he slew all the males with the edge of the sword, and took all their spoils, and burned the city with fire,'' (1 Maccabees 5:28)

It was afterwards rebuilt, and became a considerable city; in the time of the above Persian geographer d, it had a very strong castle belonging to it, a gate twenty cubits high, and one of the largest basins or pools of water in all the east. In the fourth century there were bishops of this place, which assisted in the councils of Nice, Antioch, Ephesus, and Chalcedon, as Reland e observes; though he thinks that Bostra is not to be confounded with the Bezer of Reuben, or with the Bozra of Moab and Edom; though they seem to be all one and the same place.

x De locis Hebr. fol. 95. B. y Onomast. ad vocem θαιμαν. z Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 7. a Geograph. l. 5. c. 17. b De locis Hebr. in voce "Trachonitis", fol. 95. B. c Apud Calmet, Dictionary, on the word "Bosor". d Apud Calmet, ut supra. e Palestina Illustrata, tom. 2. l. 3. p. 666.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But - (And I, in My turn and as a consequence of these sins) will send a fire upon Teman “Teman,” say Eusebius and Jerome , “was a country of the princes of Edom, which had its name from Teman son of Eliphaz, son of Esau Genesis 36:11, Genesis 36:15. But even to this day there is a village, called Teman, about 5 (Eusebius says 15) miles from Petra, where there is also a Roman garrison, from which place was Eliphaz, king of the Themanites.” It is, however, probably the district which is meant, of which Bozra was then the capital. For Amos when speaking of cities, uses some word to express this, as “the palaces of Benhadad, the wall of Gaza, of Tyrus, of Rabbah;” here he simply uses the name Teman, as he does those of Moab and Judah. Amos does not mention Petra, or Selah, for Amaziah had taken it, and called it Joktheel, “which God subdued,” which name it for some time retained 2 Kings 14:7.

Bozrah - (Literally, which cuts off approach) is mentioned, as early as Genesis Genesis 36:33, as the seat of one of the elective kings who, in times before Moses, reigned over Edom. It lay then doubtless in Idumea itself, and is quite distinct from the Bozrah of Hauran or Auranitis, from which Jerome also distinguishes it. : “There is another Bosor also, a city of Esau, in the mountains of Idumea, of which Isaiah speaks.” There is yet a small village of the like name (Busaira “the little Bozrah”) which “appears,” it is said , “to have been in ancient times a considerable city, if we may judge from the ruins which surround the village.” It has now “some 50 houses, and stands on an elevation, on the summit of which a small castle has been built.” The name however, “little Bozrah,” indicates the existence of a “great Bozrah,” with which its name is contrasted, and is not likely to have been the place itself . Probably the name was a common one, “the strong place” of its neighborhood . The Bozrah of Edom is either that little vilage, or is wholly blotted out.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 1:12. Teman-Bozrah. — Principal cities of Idumea.


 
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