Verse Lens · Context pointer
Amos 1:4 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 4. 4But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
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Role in This Section
This verse announces fire against Hazael's house and Ben-hadad's palaces as the dynastic answer to Damascus's violence.
Read It With
- Amos 1:3-5
Read Amos 1:4 with 1:3-5. This verse announces fire against Hazael's house and Ben-hadad's palaces as the dynastic answer to Damascus's violence. The complete unit establishes this movement: Damascus is judged for savage violence against Gilead; the oracle answers militarized threshing with destroyed palaces, government, and forced removal while leaving the precise campaign uncertain.
Why It Needs Context
This verse announces fire against Hazael's house and Ben-hadad's palaces as the dynastic answer to Damascus's violence. That contribution depends on Amos 1:3-5; isolated teaching would detach this line from the complete poetic movement.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Amos 1:3-5 — Damascus Accountable for Threshing GileadSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Amos 1:3-5, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Amos
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clause relationships, wordplays, names, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Amos.xml, 1:3-5
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