Amos 1:10
So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels.”
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHERE
- Tyre
- WHEN
- c. 760 BC
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WHEN
c. 760 BC
dated by the text itself
Dating by an earthquake assumes the reader knew which one it was.
WHO RULED
- Jeroboam II king of Israel 793-753 BC
- Uzziah king of Judah 792-740 BC
SOURCES
- date — Amos 1:1 dates itself by two simultaneous reigns (Uzziah in Judah and Jeroboam II in Israel) and by an earthquake, two years before it.
- Jeroboam II — 2 Kings 14:23-29; Amos 1:1 and Hosea 1:1 date their own prophecies by his reign; the Samaria ostraca
- Uzziah — 2 Kings 15:1-7; 2 Chronicles 26; Isaiah 6:1, which dates the vision by the year of his death
SEE ALSO
- Zechariah 9:4 Behold, the Lord will impoverish her and cast her wealth into the sea, and she will be consumed by fire.
- Amos 1:7 So I will send fire upon the walls of Gaza, to consume its citadels.
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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