Amos 6:11
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New International Version (©2011)
For the LORD has given the command, and he will smash the great house into pieces and the small house into bits.

New Living Translation (©2007)
When the LORD gives the command, homes both great and small will be smashed to pieces.

English Standard Version (©2001)
For behold, the LORD commands, and the great house shall be struck down into fragments, and the little house into bits.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For behold, the LORD is going to command that the great house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
For the LORD commands: The large house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.

International Standard Version (©2012)
For indeed, the LORD is giving the command— and he will smash the large house to rubble and the small house into bits.

NET Bible (©2006)
Indeed, look! The LORD is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The LORD is going to give the command to level big houses and flatten little houses.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For, behold, the LORD commands, and he will strike the great house into pieces, and the little house into bits.

American King James Version
For, behold, the LORD commands, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

American Standard Version
For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For behold the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the greater house with breaches, and the lesser house with clefts.

Darby Bible Translation
For behold, Jehovah commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

English Revised Version
For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

Webster's Bible Translation
For behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

World English Bible
"For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.

Young's Literal Translation
For lo, Jehovah is commanding, And He hath smitten the great house with breaches, And the little house with clefts.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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 rocks. When our services of God are soured with sin, his providences will justly be made bitter to us. Men should take warning not to harden their hearts, for those who walk in pride, God will destroy.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 11. - The prophet confirms the judgment denounced in ver. 8. The Lord commandeth, and he will smite. The expression, thus taken, implies that God executes his commands through the ministers of his judgment; but it may well be rendered, "and men shall smite" (comp. Amos 9:9). Breaches... clefts. The great palace requires a breach to bring it to the ground; the little but is ruined by a small rent or cleft. All houses, great and small, shall be smitten. Possibly Israel and Judah are signified respectively by "the great house" and "the little house" (comp. Amos 9:11); and their treatment by the Assyrians may be thus symbolized.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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) "guttis, seu stillis", Piscator; "quae est minuta et rorans pluvia", Drusius.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

11. commandeth, and he will smite—His word of command, when once given, cannot but be fulfilled (Isa 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.

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The Pride of Israel
…10And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say to him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with you? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold your tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD. 11For, behold, the LORD commands, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts. 12Shall horses run on the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for you have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock: …

2 Kings 25:9 He set fire to the temple of the LORD, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.
Isaiah 55:11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Amos 3:15 I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses adorned with ivory will be destroyed and the mansions will be demolished," declares the LORD.
Amos 5:11 You levy a straw tax on the poor and impose a tax on their grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them; though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine.
Malachi 1:4 Edom may say, "Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins." But this is what the LORD Almighty says: "They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the LORD.