Amos 1:4

But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad The same refrain (only the names being varied), Amos 1:7; Amos 1:10; Amos 1:12, Amos 2:2; Amos 2:5, and (with kindlefor send) Amos 1:14. Hosea (Hosea 8:14) adopts it from Amos ("And I will send a fire into his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof"); and it recurs also (with kindlefor send, as Amos 1:14) in Jeremiah 17:27; Jeremiah 21:14; Jeremiah 49:27; Jeremiah 50:32. By fireis meant the flame of war, which, partly by literal conflagrations, partly by other destructive operations, works devastation far and near: cf. Numbers 21:28. The houseof Hazael is the family or dynasty founded by him (2 Kings 8:15): -Ben-hadad" stands in the parallel clause either as the name of Hazael's successor, who would still be remembered as the second of Israel's recent oppressors, or, possibly, as the name of the monarch reigning when Amos wrote.