Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For behold, the Lord is going to command that the great house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

For the Lord commands:

The large house will be smashed to pieces,
and the small house to rubble.

International Standard Version

For indeed, the LORD is giving the command and he will smash the large house to rubble and the small house into bits.

A Conservative Version

For, behold, LORD commands, and the great house shall be smitten 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.

Amplified

For behold, the Lord is going to command that the great house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments.

Bible in Basic English

For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

For behold, Jehovah commands, and he struck the great house with breaches, and the small house with clefts.

King James 2000

For, behold, the LORD commands, and he will strike the great house into pieces, and the little house into bits.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Look, Yahweh [is] going to command and the great house will be destroyed [to] bits and the little house [to] pieces.

Modern King James verseion

For, behold, Jehovah commands, and He will strike the great house into pieces, and the little house into cracks.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Behold, the LORD is minded to smite the great houses, so that they shall decay: and the little houses, that they shall cleave asunder.

NET Bible

Indeed, look! The Lord is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.

New Heart English Bible

"For, behold, the LORD commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.

The Emphasized Bible

For lo! Yahweh, is giving command, and will smite the great house into ruins, - and the little house with clefts.

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

For lo, Jehovah is commanding, And He hath smitten the great house with breaches, And the little house with clefts.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For, behold, the Lord

Usage: 0

צוה 
Tsavah 
Usage: 494

and he will smite
נכה 
Nakah 
Usage: 501

the great
גּדל גּדול 
Gadowl 
Usage: 528

בּית 
Bayith 
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053
Usage: 2053

with breaches
רסיס 
Raciyc 
Usage: 2

and the little
קטן קטן 
Qatan 
Usage: 101

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Yahweh Abhors Israel's Pride

10 And when one's relative, the one who anoints him for burial, shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, "Is there still anyone with you?" he shall say, "No"; and he shall say, "Silence! We must not mention the name of the LORD." 11 For behold, the Lord is going to command that the great house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments. 12 Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood--

Cross References

Amos 3:15

I will strike the winter house along with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end," declares the LORD.

Isaiah 55:11

so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

2 Kings 25:9

And he burned the house of the LORDand the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

Psalm 105:16

When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread,

Psalm 105:31

He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country.

Psalm 105:34

He spoke, and the locusts came, young locusts without number,

Ecclesiastes 10:18

Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks.

Isaiah 10:5-6

Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!

Isaiah 13:3

I myself have commanded my consecrated ones, and have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger, my proudly exulting ones.

Isaiah 46:10-11

declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,'

Ezekiel 29:18-20

"Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare, yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had performed against her.

Hosea 13:16

Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Amos 3:6-7

Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the LORD has done it?

Amos 6:8

The Lord GOD has sworn by himself, declares the LORD, the God of hosts: "I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his strongholds, and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it."

Amos 9:1

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: "Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall escape.

Amos 9:9

"For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.

Nahum 1:14

The LORD has given commandment about you: "No more shall your name be perpetuated; from the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the metal image. I will make your grave, for you are vile."

Zechariah 14:2

For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Luke 19:44

and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation."

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