Amos 1:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I will send a fire: see Amos 1:4,7. Teman; metropolis of Idumea, called from Esau's grandson of that name; of this see Ezekiel 25:13 Habakkuk 3:3. And this here taken synecdochically implieth the inhabitants of this city, and of the whole country, which shall perish when the judgment here threatened shall be executed. Which shall devour the palaces: see Amos 1:4. Bozrah; a city bordering on Moab and Idumea, and which sometimes belonged to the one, sometimes to the other, as events of war determined. It may be there might be two cities of this name, the one in Moab, the other in Edom, or Idumea; however, this was a very strong city, and one of the chiefest in the whole kingdom, so that in the menace against Bozrah and Teman the strength and glory of Edom is threatened with an utter overthrow, as of that which is burnt up by fire.