Amos 6:11
What meaning of the amos 6:11 in the Bible?
What does Amos 6:11 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches,e and the little house with clefts."
What does Amos 6:11 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches,e and the little house with clefts."
Verse Amos 6:11. _HE WILL SMOTE THE GREAT HOUSE WITH BREACHES_] The great and small shall equally suffer; no distinction shall be made; rich and poor shall fall together; death has received his commis...
THE LORD COMMANDETH AND HE WILL SMITE - Jerome: “If He commandeth, how doth He smite? If He smiteth, how doth He command? In that thing which He “commands” and enjoins His ministers, He Himself is see...
CHAPTER 6 The Fourth Discourse _ 1. Woe to them that are at ease in Zion (Amos 6:1) _ 2. The punishment announced (Amos 6:7) Amos 6:1. This woe concerns the great men, the chiefs of the nation, who...
THE MISERABLE FATE OF THESE RULERS. Yahweh solemnly declares (Amos 6:8) that the pride (_mg.)_ of Jacob, the vainglory which has displaced true glory, has become an abomination to Him. There follows a...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6....
_For behold_, &c. The words give the reason for Amos 6:8, rather than for Amos 6:9, which describe merely an episode in the ruin. _commandeth_ viz. the human agents, by whose instrumentality (cf. Isa...
_GOD PROMISED PUNISHMENT AGAINST ISRAEL -- AMOS 6:11-14:_ God had commanded that complete destruction come upon both the land and the people. That is why we can understand that none would be left. God...
RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCEFALSE PRIDE TURNS RIGHTEOUSNESS TO BITTERNESS TEXT: Amos 6:9-14 9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. 10 And when...
For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts. FOR, BEHOLD, THE LORD COMMANDETH, AND HE WILL SMITE. His word of command, when...
THE FOURTH ADDRESS 1-3. False security of Judah and Israel. 4-6. Carelessness and luxury. 7-11. Captivity, siege, death, ruin. 12, 13. Preposterous errors. 14. The coming of the avenger. 1, 2. R...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 6 GOD WILL CAUSE THE GOOD TIMES IN ISRAEL TO END V1 Oh, it will be very bad for you people in *Zion. You do not think t...
BREACHES. — For this read _ruins._ (See end of Note on Amos 6:8.) The overthrow of all classes of the population is here referred to....
כִּֽי ־הִנֵּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ מְצַוֶּ֔ה וְ הִכָּ֛ה הַ בַּ֥יִת הַ גָּדֹ֖ול רְסִיסִ֑ים וְ הַ בַּ֥יִת...
3. "AT EASE IN ZION" Amos 6:1 The evil of the national worship was the false political confidence which it engendered. Leaving the ritual alone, Amos now proceeds to assault this confidence. We are...
“WOE TO THEM THAT ARE AT EASE IN ZION!” Amos 6:1-14 Zion is included with Samaria in this prophecy and the nobles are especially condemned for their drunkenness, gluttony, and insolence. The prophet...
From the formalists the prophet turned toward those who had lost all sense of the spiritual and the moral, and were indifferent, those were ''at ease in Zion," and "secure upon the mountains of Samari...
_Lord. He has done it. Do not repine. (Theodoret; St. Cyril) --- Hebrew, "Be silent, and not to remember the," &c. He will offer comfort. (Calmet) --- Still, none will return to the Lord. (St. Jerome)...
Probably the captivity here spoken of, in the first sense, had a reference to the Babylonish captivity. But I humbly conceive it had respect to another of an higher nature in a spiritual sense. But, R...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the...
This verse is added only to confirm the former sentence. The Prophet indeed intimates, that the common people, as well as the chiefs, in vain trusted in their quiet state; for the Lord would destroy t...
Chapter 6 dwells upon the false confidence that deceived the heads of Israel. A similar judgment to that of Calneh and Hamath might fall upon Israel. Their chief men gave themselves up to luxury, as t...
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 th...
For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts. Ver. 11. _For, behold, the Lord commandeth_] Calamities, and they come; the Chalde...
_If there remain ten men in one house_, &c. Those that escape the hands of the enemy shall die by the pestilence. _And a man's uncle_ (or kinsman) _shall take him up_ Some friend or relation, whose du...
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE KINGDOM FORETOLD...
BREACHES: Or, droppings...
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 w...
FOR, BEHOLD; consider this well: it seems to be the continued speech of him who took care of the dead, AMOS 6:10. THE LORD COMMANDETH; God, provoked by our sins, hath sent out thy enemies; war, famine...
Amos 6:11 LORD H3068 command H6680 (H8764) break H5221 (H8689) great H1419 house H1004 bits H7447 little H6996 house H1004 pieces H1233 the Lord - Amos 3:6-7, Amos 9:1, Amos 9:9;...
THE SECOND WOE ON THOSE WHO COMPLACENTLY RELAXED, DEPENDING ON YHWH'S PROTECTION, WHILE THEY ALSO TOTALLY IGNORED HIS REQUIREMENTS (AMOS 6:1). While Amos's mission was to Israel he never overlooked th...
CONTENTS: Woe pronounced upon those at ease in sin abandoned by God. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Many are puffed up and rocked to sleep in carnal security by the position they occupy in the...
Amos 6:1. _The mountain of Samaria._ This city was built on a hill, like Zion, to make it impregnable. See note on Isaiah 28:1. Amos 6:2. _Calneh,_ or Ctesiphon. It was situate almost opposite Seleuci...
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 6:7. HEAD] Chiefs in transgression must be _first_ in the procession to captivity. BANQUET] Lit. making merry with shouts. AMOS 6:8. SWORN] “Like ch. Amos 4:2, except that it i...
EXPOSITION AMOS 6:1 With a second woe the prophet denounces the chiefs of the whole nation, who were quite satisfied with the present state of things, and, revelling in luxury, feared no coming judg...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Amos chapter 6. The Northern Kingdom of Israel has become apostate. They are living in luxury, carelessness, indifference towards God, when suddenly their peace is distu...
2 Kings 25:9; Amos 3:6; Amos 3:7; Amos 9:1; Amos 9:9; Amos 3:15; Amos 6:8; Ecclesiastes 10:18; Ezekiel 29:18; Hosea 13:16;...
For behold — It seems to be the continued speech of him who took care of the dead, Amos 6:10, God hath sent out war, famine, and pestilence. The great house — The palaces of great men shall have great...