the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Amos 6:11
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For the Lord commands:
"For, behold, the LORD commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, And the little house into bits.
For beholde, the Lord commandeth, and hee will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
For, behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
For behold, the Lord commands, and the great house shall be struck down into fragments, and the little house into bits.
For behold, the LORD is going to command that the great house be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.
The Lord has given the command; the large house will be broken into pieces, and the small house into bits.
For behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the litle house with clefts.
For behold, the LORD is going to command that the great house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments.
For behold, Yahweh is going to command and will strike the great house to pieces and the small house to fragments.
For the LORD gives a command: "The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble."
At the Lord 's command, houses great and small will be smashed to pieces.
For when Adonai gives the order, great houses will be shattered and small houses reduced to rubble.
For behold, Jehovah commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Look, the Lord will give the command, and the large houses will be broken to pieces, and the small houses will be broken to small pieces.
For, behold, the LORD will go forth and he will smite the great house and cause it to quiver, and the little house will he make desolate.
When the Lord gives the command, houses large and small will be smashed to pieces.
Look, Yahweh is going to command and the great house will be destroyed to bits and the little house to pieces.
For, behold, Jehovah commands, and He will strike the great house into pieces, and the little house into cracks.
For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.
For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten into splinters, and the little house into chips.
For behold the Lord commaundeth, and he will smyte the great house with breaches, & the litle houses with cleftes.
And he shall say, No one else. And the other shall say, Be silent, that thou name not the name of the Lord.
For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
"For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, And the little house into bits.
For lo! the Lord schal comaunde, and schal smyte the grettere hous with fallyngis, and the lesse hous with brekyngis.
For, look, Yahweh commands, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
For behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Indeed, look! The Lord is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.
For behold, the LORD gives a command: He will break the great house into bits, And the little house into pieces.
When the Lord gives the command, homes both great and small will be smashed to pieces.
For the Lord is going to say that the great house must be broken apart and the small house into pieces.
See, the Lord commands, and the great house shall be shattered to bits, and the little house to pieces.
For lo! Yahweh, is giving command, and will smite the great house into ruins, - and the little house with clefts.
(6-12) For behold the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the greater house with breaches, and the lesser house with clefts.
For behold, the LORD commands, and the great house shall be smitten into fragments, and the little house into bits.
For lo, Jehovah is commanding, And He hath smitten the great house [with] breaches, And the little house [with] clefts.
Beholde, the LORDE is mynded to smyte the greate houses, so that they shall decaye: ad the litle houses, that they shall cleue a sunder.
Note well: God issues the orders. He'll knock large houses to smithereens. He'll smash little houses to bits.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the Lord: Amos 3:6, Amos 3:7, Amos 9:1, Amos 9:9, Psalms 105:16, Psalms 105:31, Psalms 105:34, Isaiah 10:5, Isaiah 10:6, Isaiah 13:3, Isaiah 46:10, Isaiah 46:11, Isaiah 55:11, Ezekiel 29:18-20, Nahum 1:14
he will: Amos 6:8, Amos 3:15, 2 Kings 25:9, Hosea 13:16, Zechariah 14:2, Luke 19:44
breaches: or, droppings, Ecclesiastes 10:18
Reciprocal: Leviticus 14:34 - I put the plague of leprosy 1 Kings 13:33 - Jeroboam Isaiah 5:9 - Of a truth Isaiah 9:14 - will cut Jeremiah 9:21 - General Jeremiah 16:6 - the great Jeremiah 52:13 - the king's
Cross-References
Now it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,
that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and desirable; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose and desired.
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you with all your household, for you [alone] I have seen as righteous (doing what is right) before Me in this generation.
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD."
But the men of Sodom were extremely wicked and sinful against the LORD [unashamed in their open sin before Him].
"Because your heart was gentle and penitent and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and its inhabitants, and humbled yourself before Me, and tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you," declares the LORD.
The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked, And His soul hates the [malevolent] one who loves violence.
Confuse [my enemies], O Lord, divide their tongues [destroying their schemes], For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
"Do not let a slanderer be established in the earth; Let evil quickly hunt the violent man [to overthrow him and stop his evil acts]."
"Violence will not be heard again in your land, Nor devastation or destruction within your borders; But you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise [to God].
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For, behold, the Lord commandeth,.... Hath determined and ordered the judgment before, and what follows: Kimchi paraphrases it, hath decreed the earthquake, as in Amos 3:15; of which he understands the following:
and he will smite the great house with breaches; or "droppings" h; so that the rain shall drop through:
and the little house with clefts; so that it shall fall to ruin; that is, he shall smite the houses both of great and small, of the princes, and of the common people, either with an earthquake, so that they shall part asunder and fall; or, being left without inhabitants, shall of course become desolate, there being none to repair their breaches. Some understand, by the "great house", the ten tribes of Israel; and, by the "little house", the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin; to which sense the Targum seems to incline,
"he will smite the great kingdom with a mighty stroke, and the little kingdom with a weak stroke.''
h רסיסים "guttis, [seu] stillis", Piscator; ψεκαδες, "quae est minuta et rorans pluvia", Drusius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The Lord commandeth and He will smite - Jerome: “If He commandeth, how doth He smite? If He smiteth, how doth He command? In that thing which He “commands” and enjoins His ministers, He Himself is seen to “smite.” In Egypt the Lord declares that He killed the first-born, who, we read, were slain by “the destroyer” Exodus 12:23. The “breaches” denote probably the larger, “the cleft” the smaller ruin. The greater pile was the more greatly destroyed.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Amos 6:11. 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., v. 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.
