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

9If ten people are left in one house, they will die. 10If a relative or a mortician comes to take the dead bodies out of the house and asks someone who is inside the house, “Is there anyone else with you?” that person will answer, “No.” “Hush,” he will add. “We shouldn’t mention the name of the Lord!” The Lord is going to give the command to level big houses and flatten little houses. 12Do horses run on rocks? Does a farmer plow the sea with oxen? Yet, you have turned justice into something deadly and what is righteous into poison. 13How horrible it will be for those who rejoice over Lo Debar and who say, “We were strong enough to capture Karnaim by ourselves.”

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 sounds an alarm in a city, won’t the people be alarmed? If there is a disaster in a city, hasn’t the Lord done it?
• Amos 9:1I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said: Strike the tops of the pillars so that the foundations shake. Cut off everyone’s head. I will kill with a sword all who are left. None of them will be able to get away. None of them will be able to escape.
• Psalms 105:16He brought famine to the land. He took away their food supply.
• Isaiah 10:5“How horrible it will be for Assyria! It is the rod of my anger. My fury is the staff in the Assyrians’ hands.
• Isaiah 13:3I’ve commanded my holy ones. I’ve called my mighty men to carry out my anger. They find joy in my triumphs.
• Isaiah 46:10From the beginning I revealed the end. From long ago I told you things that had not yet happened, saying, “My plan will stand, and I’ll do everything I intended to do.”
• Isaiah 55:11My word, which comes from my mouth, is like the rain and snow. It will not come back to me without results. It will accomplish whatever I want and achieve whatever I send it to do.”
• Ezekiel 29:18“Son of man, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon made his army fight hard against Tyre. Every soldier’s head was worn bald, and every soldier’s shoulder was rubbed raw. Yet, he and his army got no reward for their hard-fought battle against Tyre.
• Nahum 1:14The Lord has given this command about you, Nineveh: You will no longer have descendants to carry on your name. I will remove the wooden and metal idols from the temple of your gods. I will prepare your grave because you are worthless.
• Amos 6:8The Almighty Lord has sworn an oath on himself. The Lord God of Armies declares: I am disgusted with Jacob’s pride, and I hate his palaces. So I will hand over the city and everything in it.
• Amos 3:15I will tear down winter houses as well as summer houses. Houses ⌞decorated⌟ with ivory will be destroyed. Mansions will be demolished, declares the Lord.
• 2 Kings 25:9He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem. Every important building was burned down.
• Hosea 13:16The people of Samaria are guilty as charged because they rebelled against their God. They will be killed in war, their children will be smashed to death, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.
• Zechariah 14:2I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem for battle. The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half of the people in the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people won’t be taken from the city.
• Luke 19:44They will level you to the ground and kill your people. One stone will not be left on top of another, because you didn’t recognize the time when God came to help you.”
• Ecclesiastes 10:18A roof sags because of laziness. A house leaks because of idle hands.

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