Amos 6:11

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

For behold, YHWH is giving a command, and He will strike the great house to pieces, and the little house to bits!

Latin

Quia ecce Dominus mandabit, et percutiet domum majorem ruinis, et domum minorem scissionibus.

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Amos 5:18–6:14

The 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.

Events

Prophecies of Amosc. 788 BC

Related verses

Amos 3:15
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.
Isaiah 55:11
…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.
2 Kings 25:9
He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
Zechariah 14:2
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 removed from the city.
Amos 6:8
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.”
Luke 19:44
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.”
Amos 9:9
“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
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 are contemptible.”
Isaiah 46:10–11
I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
Isaiah 10:5–6
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
Psalm 105:16
He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.
Amos 3:6–7
If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?

Glossary

Book of Amos

Topics

Houses of the Rich: Great

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