Amos 6:11 “For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to piec…”

Amos 6:11

For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

World English Bible

“For, behold, the LORD commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.

American Standard Version

For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

Geneva Bible 1599

For behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the litle house with clefts.

Darby Translation

For behold, Jehovah commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

Young's Literal Translation

For lo, Jehovah is commanding, And He hath smitten the great house [with] breaches, And the little house [with] clefts.

Bible in Basic English

For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.

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Cross references

“the Lord”

Isaiah 55:11 Amos 9:9 Nahum 1:14 Amos 9:1 Psalm 105:16 Psalm 105:31

Isaiah 55:11 · BSB

so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.

Amos 9:9 · BSB

“For surely I will give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve; but not a pebble will reach the ground.

Nahum 1:14 · BSB

The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you…

Amos 9:1 · BSB

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who…

Psalm 105:16 · BSB

He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.

Psalm 105:31 · BSB

He spoke, and insects swarmed— gnats throughout their country.

“he will”

Amos 3:15 2 Kings 25:9 Amos 6:8 Zechariah 14:2 Luke 19:44 Hosea 13:16

Amos 3:15 · BSB

I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.

2 Kings 25:9 · BSB

He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

Amos 6:8 · BSB

The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”

Zechariah 14:2 · BSB

For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be remove…

Luke 19:44 · BSB

They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God. ”

Hosea 13:16 · BSB

Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

“breaches”

Ecclesiastes 10:18

Ecclesiastes 10:18 · BSB

Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”

12“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

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