Amos 6 · Verse 11

Amos 6:11

For, behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Amos 6:11, King James Version

Amos 6:11 in other translations

BSBFor the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”
WEB“For, behold, the LORD commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.
ASVFor, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
YLTFor lo, Jehovah is commanding, And He hath smitten the great house with breaches, And the little house with clefts.
DARBYFor behold, Jehovah commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
BBEFor see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.
WebsterFor behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

What does Amos 6:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
11. 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 fall, yet still permitted to stand.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 He 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 to the houses of the poor in Eastern countries; their mud walls being frequently full of clefts; the earth of which they are built seldom adhering together because of its sandiness.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Amos 6:8-14

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…

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Amos 6:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּֽי\־ki-forH3588
הִנֵּ֤הhi.Nehhere!H2009
יְהוָה֙Yah.wehYahwehH3068
מְצַוֶּ֔הme.tza.Veh[is] commandingH6680
וְהִכָּ֛הve.hi.Kahand someone will strikeH5221
הַבַּ֥יִתha.Ba.yitthe houseH1004
הַגָּד֖וֹלha.ga.Dol<the> greatH1419
רְסִיסִ֑יםre.si.SimfragmentsH7447
וְהַבַּ֥יִתve.ha.Ba.yitand the houseH1004
הַקָּטֹ֖ןha.ka.Ton<the> smallH6996
בְּקִעִֽים\׃be.ki.'Imrubble<s>H1233

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Cross references for Amos 6:11

  • Amos 3:15

    And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the Lord.

  • Isaiah 55:11

    So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

  • 2 Kings 25:9

    And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.

  • Amos 6:8

    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.

  • Luke 19:44

    And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

  • Amos 9:9

    For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

  • Zechariah 14:2

    For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

  • Nahum 1:14

    And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.

  • Isaiah 46:10-11

    Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

  • Hosea 13:16

    Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

  • Psalms 105:16

    Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.

  • Isaiah 13:3

    I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the Lord.
3:6,7; 9:1,9; Ps 105:16,31,34; Isa 10:5,6; 13:3; 46:10,11; 55:11
Eze 29:18-20; Na 1:14
he will.
8; 3:15; 2Ki 25:9; Ho 13:16; Zec 14:2; Lu 19:44
breaches. or, droppings.
Ec 10:18

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Context

  • Amos 6:10

    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 shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the Lord.

  • Amos 6:11

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

  • Amos 6:12

    Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

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Amos 6:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Porque he aquí, Jehová mandará, y herirá con hendiduras la casa mayor, y la casa menor con aberturas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Car voici, l’ Éternel a commandé, et on frappera la grande maison de brèches, et la petite maison, de fentes.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Denn siehe, Jehova gebietet, und man schlägt das große Haus in Trümmer und das kleine Haus in Splitter
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et respondebit: Finis est. Et dicet ei: Tace, et non recorderis nominis Domini.