Amos 6:11

Amos 6:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For, behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
• New International Version (NIV)For the Lord has given the command, and he will smash the great house into pieces and the small house into bits.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For behold, the Lord commands, and the great house shall be struck down into fragments, and the little house into bits.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For behold, the Lord gives a command: He will break the great house into bits, And the little house into pieces.

Context of Amos 6:11

9And if there are ten men left in one house, they will die. 10A close relative and burner will remove his corpse from the house. He will call to someone in the inner recesses of the house, “Any more with you?” That person will reply, “None.” Then he will say, “Silence, because the Lord’s name must not be invoked.” For the Lord commands: The large house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble. 12Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does anyone plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood — 13you who rejoice over Lo-debar and say, “Didn’t we capture Karnaim for ourselves by our own strength?”

Amos 6:11 word by word

כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ מְצַוֶּ֔ה וְהִכָּ֛ה הַבַּ֥יִת הַגָּד֖וֹל רְסִיסִ֑ים וְהַבַּ֥יִת הַקָּטֹ֖ן בְּקִעִֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For, behold, the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• commandethצָוָהtsâvâh · to commandH6680
• and he will smiteנָכָהnâkâh · to smiteH5221
• the greatגָּדוֹלgâdôl gâdôl · great: largeH1419
• houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• with breachesרָסִיסrâsîys · fragmentH7447
• and the littleקָטֹןqâţân qâţôn · smallH6996
• with cleftsבְּקִיעַbeqîya‛ · breachH1233

Cross-references for Amos 6:11

• Amos 3:6If a ram’s horn is blown in a city, aren’t people afraid? If a disaster occurs in a city, hasn’t the Lord done it?
• Amos 9:1I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: Strike the capitals of the pillars so that the thresholds shake; knock them down on the heads of all the people. Then I will kill the rest of them with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.
• Psalms 105:16He called down famine against the land and destroyed the entire food supply.
• Isaiah 10:5Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger — the staff in their hands is my wrath.
• Isaiah 13:3I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my warriors, who celebrate my triumph, to execute my wrath.
• Isaiah 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and from long ago what is not yet done, saying: my plan will take place, and I will do all my will.
• Isaiah 55:11so my word that comes from my mouth will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish what I please and will prosper in what I send it to do.”
• Ezekiel 29:18“Son of man, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon made his army labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder chafed, but he and his army received no compensation from Tyre for the labor he expended against it.
• Nahum 1:14The Lord has issued an order concerning you: There will be no offspring to carry on your name. I will eliminate the carved idol and cast image from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.
• Amos 6:8The Lord God has sworn by himself — this is the declaration of the Lord, the God of Armies: I loathe Jacob’s pride and hate his citadels, so I will hand over the city and everything in it.
• Amos 3:15I will demolish the winter house and the summer house; the houses inlaid with ivory will be destroyed, and the great houses will come to an end. This is the Lord’s declaration.
• 2 Kings 25:9He burned the Lord’s temple, the king’s palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down all the great houses.
• Hosea 13:16Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their children will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
• Zechariah 14:2I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle. The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.
• Luke 19:44They will crush you and your children among you to the ground, and they will not leave one stone on another in your midst, because you did not recognize the time when God visited you.”
• Ecclesiastes 10:18Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of negligent hands the house leaks.

Commentaries on Amos 6:11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11He will smote the great house with breaches - The great and small shall equally suffer; no distinction shall be made; rich and poor shall fall together; death has received his commission, and he will spare none. Horace has a sentiment precisely like this, Carm. Lib. i., Od. iv., 5:13. Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum Tabernas, Regumque Turres. With equal pace impartial fate Knocks at the palace as the cottage gate. But this may refer particularly…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11The Lord commandeth and He will smite - Jerome: “If He commandeth, how doth He smite? If He smiteth, how doth He command? In that thing which He “commands” and enjoins His ministers, He Himself is seen to “smite.” In Egypt the Lord declares that He killed the first-born, who, we read, were slain by “the destroyer” Exodus 12:23. The “breaches” denote probably the larger, “the cleft” the smaller ruin. The greater pile was the more greatly destroyed.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-14Verses 8-14 How dreadful, how miserable, is the case of those whose eternal ruin the Lord himself has sworn; for he can execute his purpose, and none can alter it! Those hearts are wretchedly hardened that will not be brought to mention God's name, and to worship him, when the hand of God is gone out against them, when sickness and death are in their families. Those that will not be tilled as fields, shall be abandoned as rocks. When our services of God…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-14The pronouncements of sorrow in this section develop two main themes: Israel’s apostasy (turning away from God) would make the day of the Lord a day of judgment, not salvation; and Judah’s spiritual complacency (feeling satisfied and unconcerned about faithfulness to God) would also bring judgment.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. commandeth, and he will smite--His word of command, when once given, cannot but be fulfilled (Is 55:11). His mere word is enough to smite with destruction. great house ... little house--He will spare none, great or small (Am 3:15). Jerome interprets "the great house" as Israel, and "the small house" as Judah: the former being reduced to branches or ruins, literally, "small drops"; the latter, though injured with "clefts" or rents, which threaten its…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Amos 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings