Amos 6:11

For, look, Yahweh will give a command, 1 and the big house will be smashed to pieces, 1 and the little house to bits. 1

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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 a man's relative comes to take their bodies up—the one who is to cremate them after bringing the corpses out of the house—if he says to the person in the house, “Is there anyone with you?” What if that person says, “No.” Then he will say, “Be quiet, for we must not mention Yahweh's name.” 1

12Do horses run on the rocky cliffs? 1 Does one plow there with oxen? 1 Yet you have turned justice into poison 1 and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 105:16He called for a famine on the land; 1 he cut off the whole supply of bread. 1

Psalms 105:34He spoke, and the locusts came, 1 so many locusts. 1

Isaiah 10:5Woe to the Assyrian, the club of my anger, the rod by whom I wield my fury! 1

Isaiah 46:10I announce the end from the beginning, and beforehand what has not yet happened; 1 I say, “My plan will happen, and I will do as I desire.” 1

Ezekiel 29:18“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon stationed his army to do hard work against Tyre. Every head was rubbed until it was made bald, and every shoulder was made raw. Yet he and his army received no payment from Tyre for the hard work that he carried out against it.

Amos 3:6If a trumpet sounds in a city, 1 will the people not tremble? 1 If disaster overtakes a city, 1 has Yahweh not sent it? 1

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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