Holy Scripture

Amos 1:12

A church father on this verse
“(Ver. 11 and following) Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke my judgment; Because he pursued his brother with the sword, and violated all pity, and his anger tore at them constantly, and he kept his wrath to the end. I will send fire into Teman, and it will consume the fortress…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Amos

Source: Septuagint

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12And I will send forth a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the foundations of her walls.

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10And I will send forth a fire on the walls of Tyre, and it shall devour the foundations of it.

11Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.

— Amos 1:12 —

13Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they ripped up the women with child of the Gileadites, that they might widen their coasts.

14And I will kindle a fire on the walls of Rabbah, and it shall devour her foundations with shouting in the day of war, and she shall be shaken in the days of her destruction:

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