10But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-15)What the Lord says here may be explained by what he says Jer. 12:14; Thus said the Lord, against all my evil neighbours that touch the inheritance of my people Israel, Behold, I will pluck them out . Damascus was a near neighbour to Israel on the north, Tyre and Gaza on the west, Edom on the south, Ammon and (in the next chapter) Moab on the east; and all of them had been, one time, one way, or ot…
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