But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, And it will devour its palaces, With shouting in the day of battle, With a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;
Who can deny that it happened exactly as Amos had foretold?  The cuneiform inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser, the great Assyrian king, relate how Ahaz of Judah, "Sanipu king of Ammon" both appear in a list of kings who paid tribute to him.[47]  Also, some forty years later, "Buduilu of Ammon (along with others) paid Sennacherib tribute and kissed his feet."[48]  Both of these destructions of Ammon occurred at substantial time periods subsequent to Amos' prophecy.  "Their last stand seems to have been against Judas Maccabeus  (1 Maccabees 5:6)."[49]