Amos 1:12
Good News Translation
So I will send fire upon the city of Teman and burn down the fortresses of Bozrah."

New Revised Standard Version
So I will send a fire on Teman, and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah.

Contemporary English Version
Now I will send fire to wipe out the fortresses of Teman and Bozrah.

New American Bible
I will send fire upon Teman, and it will devour the strongholds of Bozrah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will send a fire into Theman: and it shall devour the houses of Bosra.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I will send a fire into Theman: and it shall devour the houses of Bosra.

Teman.

Genesis 36:11 And Eliphaz had sons: Theman, Omar, Sepho, and Gatham and Cenez.

Jeremiah 49:7,20 Against Edom. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Theman? counsel is perished from her children: their wisdom is become unprofitable. . . .

Obadiah 1:9,10 Shall not I in that day, saith the Lord, destroy the wise out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? . . .

Bozrah.

Genesis 36:33 And Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zara, of Bosra, reigned in his stead.

Isaiah 34:6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made thick with the blood of lambs and buck goats, with the blood of rams full of marrow: for there is a victim of the Lord in Bosra and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Jeremiah 49:13,22 For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bosra shall become a desolation, and a reproach, and a desert, and a curse: and all her cities shall be everlasting wastes. . . .

Context
Judgment on Israel's Neighbors
11Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath pursued his brother with the sword, and hath carried on his fury, and hath kept his wrath to the end. 12I will send a fire into Theman: and it shall devour the houses of Bosra.13Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of the children of Ammon, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath ripped up the women with child of Galaad to enlarge his border.…
Cross References
Isaiah 34:5
For my sword is inebriated in heaven: behold it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my slaughter unto judgment.

Isaiah 63:1
Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bosra, this beautiful one in his robe, walking in the greatness of his strength. I, that speak justice, and am a defender to save.

Jeremiah 49:7
Against Edom. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Theman? counsel is perished from her children: their wisdom is become unprofitable.

Jeremiah 49:13
For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bosra shall become a desolation, and a reproach, and a desert, and a curse: and all her cities shall be everlasting wastes.

Jeremiah 49:20
Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he hath taken concerning Edom: and his thoughts which he hath thought concerning the inhabitants of Theman: surely the little ones of the flock shall cast them down, of a truth they shall destroy them with their habitation.

Ezekiel 25:13
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I will stretch forth my hand upon Edom, and will take away out of it man and beast, and will make it desolate from the south: and they that are in Dedan shall fall by the sword.

Obadiah 1:1
And I will plant them upon their own land: and I will no more pluck them out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.

Obadiah 1:9
Shall not I in that day, saith the Lord, destroy the wise out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

Habakkuk 3:3
God will come from the south, and the holy one from mount Pharan: His glory covered the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise.

Amos 1:11
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