John Gill Commentary Amos 1:10

"but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the palaces thereof." — Amos 1:10 (ASV)

But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus
An enemy to destroy the walls of it: this was done either by Shalmaneser king of the Assyrians, in the times of Eulaeus king of the Tyrians, of whose expedition against it Josephus ^F19 makes mention: or by Nebuchadnezzar, who took it after thirteen years' siege of it, in the time of Ithobalus {t}: or by Alexander, by whom it was taken, as Curtius ^F21 relates, after it had been besieged seven months: which shall devour the palaces thereof ;
of the governor, the great men and merchants in it. Alexander ordered all to be slain but those that fled to the temples, and fire to be put to the houses; which made it a most desolate place, as the above historian has recorded.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F19: Antiqu. l. 9. c. 14. sect. 2.
• F21: Hist. l. 4. c. 4.