Amos 6:11

Look! The Lord is giving the command! He will smash the large house to bits, the small house into fragments.

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

In Context

10When the uncle and another member of the family of a dead man come to carry the body out of the house for burial, they will call to someone in a corner of the house, ‘Any more there?’ and he will answer, ‘No’, and then he will add, ‘Be quiet!’ – for the name of the Lord must not be mentioned.

12Do horses gallop on crags? Does one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you turn justice into poison weed, and the fruit of righteousness into bitter wormwood.

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Cross References

Psalms 105:16When he called down famine on the land, and cut off the bread which sustained them,

Psalms 105:34At his command came locusts, young locusts beyond all counting,

Amos 3:6Can a trumpet be blown in a city and the people not tremble? Can disaster strike a city and the Lord not have caused it?

Matthew Henry on Amos 6:9-14

Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 790.) 8 The Lord God hath sworn by himself, saith the Lord the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein. 9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. 10 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he… Read the whole commentary →

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