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Amos 6:11

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

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
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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Amos 3:15I 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 55:11so 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 25:9He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.Luke 19:44They 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.”Nahum 1:14The 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.”Zechariah 14:2For 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 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.Amos 6:8The 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.”Jeremiah 52:13He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.Isaiah 10:5–6Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.Ezekiel 29:18–20“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder made raw. But he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the labor they expended on it.Psalms 105:34He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.Isaiah 13:3I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph.Psalms 105:16He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.Isaiah 46:10–11I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’Ecclesiastes 10:18Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.Amos 9:1I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.Amos 3:6–7If 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?

About Amos

The Prophet Amos — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Amos — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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