Amos 6:11

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Summary

Amos 6:11

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

The lord

He will

Breaches

Ecclesiastes 10:18

General references

Jeremiah 9:21

Bible References

The lord

Shall the shofar be blown in the city and the people not be afraid? Shall there be any evil in the city which the LORD has not done?

I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said, Smite the threshold and shake the doors and cut the head of them all into pieces; and I will slay the last of them with the sword; there shall be none of them left to flee away or to escape.

Moreover he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole staff of bread.

O Assyrian, rod and staff of my anger, in thy hand have I placed my indignation.

I have commanded my sanctified ones; I have also called my mighty ones for my anger that they might rejoice with my glory.

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:

So shall my Word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall be prospered in that for which I sent it.

Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre; every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: and yet neither he nor his army had wages of Tyre, for the service that he had served against her.

And the LORD shall give a commandment concerning thee that no one else of thy name ever be sown; out of the house of thy god I will cut off the graven image and the molten image; I will make it thy grave because thou wert vile.

He will

The Lord GOD has sworn by himself, the LORD God of the hosts said, I abhor the grandeur of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore I will give the city with all that is therein over to the enemy.

And I will smite the winter house with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and many houses shall be cut off, said the LORD.

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 he burnt with fire.

Samaria shall be condemned; for she has 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 open.

For I will gather all the Gentiles against Jerusalem in 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, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

and shall cast thee down to 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.

Breaches

By much slothfulness the building decays, and through idleness of the hands the rain drips throughout the house.

General references

For death is come up into our windows and is entered into our palaces to cut off the children from without and the young men from the streets.