# Amos 1:14

> So I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah
to consume its citadels
amid war cries on the day of battle
and a violent wind on the day of tempest.

— Amos 1:14, Berean Standard Bible

## On the map

- **Rabbah 1** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/rabbah-1

## When

- c. 760 BC (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: 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.

## Who ruled

- **Jeroboam II**, king of Israel, 793-753 BC · Source: 2 Kings 14:23-29; Amos 1:1 and Hosea 1:1 date their own prophecies by his reign; the Samaria ostraca
- **Uzziah**, king of Judah, 792-740 BC · Source: 2 Kings 15:1-7; 2 Chronicles 26; Isaiah 6:1, which dates the vision by the year of his death

## See also

- Deuteronomy 3:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/deuteronomy/3/11
- Jeremiah 49:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/jeremiah/49/2
- Amos 2:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/amos/2/2
- 2 Samuel 12:26 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-samuel/12/26
- Isaiah 30:30 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/30/30

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/amos/1/14
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/amos/1
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).