Amos 1:10

I will send fire on the walls of Tyre
that will consume her fortresses.


1:10. Tyre’s punishment is similar to that described in verse 7. Alexander the Great overran the city of Tyre in 332 b.c. after besieging it for seven months. Six thousand people were slain outright, 2,000 were crucified, and 30,000 were sold as slaves. Tyre had sold Israelites to Edom as captives; later many Tyrians became captives.


fire—(Compare Am 1:4, 7; Is 23:1–18; Ez 26:1–28:26). Many parts of Tyre were burnt by fiery missiles of the Chaldeans under Nebuchadnezzar. Alexander of Macedon subsequently overthrew it.