The Pulpit Commentary on Amos 1:7

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A fire. Each guilty city is to have its own special punishment, though probably the calamity of each is common to all. Gaza was conquered by Sennacherib when he invaded Judea in the time of Hezekiah, by Pharaoh-Necho (Jeremiah 47:1), and by Alexander the Great, who spent more than two months in its siege (Josephus, 'Ant.

,' 11:8, 4; Arrian; 2:27; see note on Zephaniah 2:4).

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