Amos 6:11 Commentary, explanation, 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. ”

• Amos 6:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 i...

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• Amos 6:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 foll...

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• Amos 6:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.

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• Amos 6:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  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 de...

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• Amos 6:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts. He will smote the great house with breaches - The great and small shall equally su...

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• Amos 6:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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,...

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• Amos 6:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 avenge...

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• Amos 6:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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.

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• Amos 6:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  3. "AT EASE IN ZION" Amos 6:1-14 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....

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• Amos 6:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “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 pr...

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• Amos 6:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 Samar...

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• Amos 6:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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,...

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• Amos 6:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 understan...

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• Amos 6:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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 Chal...

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• Amos 6:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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, who...

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• Amos 6:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Threatenings of Judgment. B. C. 790.       8 The Lord G OD hath sworn by himself, saith the...

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• Amos 6:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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; wa...

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• Amos 6:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Second Woe On Those Who Complacently Relaxed, Depending On YHWH's Protection, While They Also Totally Ignored His Requirements ( Amos 6:1-14 ). While Amos's mission was to Israel he never over...

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• Amos 6:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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 ,...

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• Amos 6:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Amos 6:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Amos 6:1-30 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...

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• Amos 6:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Destruction of the Kingdom Foretold

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• Amos 6:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  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 29:18-20 ; Hosea 13:16 ; Isaiah 10:5 ; Isaiah 10:6 ; Isaiah 13:3 ; Isaiah...

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• Amos 6:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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...

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