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 their uncle shall take each one and burn them to bring out the bones out of the house and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then he shall say, Hold thy tongue, for we may not make mention of 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 Shall horses run upon the rocks? will one plow there with oxen? why have ye turned judgment into hemlock, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood?


Cross References

Amos 3:15

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.

Isaiah 55:11

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.

2 Kings 25:9

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.

Psalm 105:16

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

Psalm 105:31

He spoke, and swarms of flies and lice came within all their borders.

Psalm 105:34

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

Ecclesiastes 10:18

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

Isaiah 10:5-6

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

Isaiah 13:3

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

Isaiah 46:10-11

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:

Ezekiel 29:18-20

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.

Hosea 13:16

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.

Amos 3:6-7

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?

Amos 6:8

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.

Amos 9:1

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.

Amos 9:9

For, behold, I will command, and I will cause the house of Israel to be sifted among all the Gentiles like as the grain is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall to the earth.

Nahum 1:14

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.

Zechariah 14:2

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.

Luke 19:44

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.

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