Amos 2:5

So I will send a fire upon Judah,
and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem."

fire upon Judah. The Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar fulfilled this judgment, ca. 605–586 b.c. (cf. 2 Kin. 24,25).

The threatened judgment on Judah was “fire” of the sort with which Tyre and Edom were threatened (1:10, 12). Destruction in warfare does not seem to be too harsh a judgment for the atrocities committed by Tyre and Edom. But what about Judah’s judgment? Were Judah’s sins comparable to the atrocities of these nations? God’s assignment of identical judgment would seem to answer in the affirmative. Furthermore, being “God’s people” does not create immunity to the judgment of God but in fact increases accountability. Their guilt placed them alongside those foreign nations who perpetrated atrocities on fellow human beings.

The judgment against Judah is stated in language which had already been employed against the nations. God would send the fire of his wrath against Judah. It would consume the palaces of Jerusalem. These words were literally as well as figuratively fulfilled by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 b.c. (2:5)

The destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans is here briefly foretold (Jer. 17:27; Hos. 8:14; 2 Kings 25:9, 10).