SEV Biblia, Chapter 6:11
Porque he aquí, el SEÑOR mandará, y herirá con hendiduras la casa mayor, y la casa menor con aberturas.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Amos 6:11
Verse 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 commission, and he will spare none. Horace has a sentiment precisely like this, Carm. Lib. i., Od. iv., v. 13.
Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum TABERNAS, Regumque TURRES.
With equal pace impartial fate Knocks at the palace as the cottage gate.
But this may refer particularly to the houses of the poor in Eastern countries; their mud walls being frequently full of clefts; the earth of which they are built seldom adhering together because of its sandiness.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 11. For, behold, the Lord commandeth , etc.] 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 the following: and he will smite the great house with breaches ; or “droppings” f176 ; so that the rain shall drop through: and the little house with clefts ; so that it shall fall to ruin; that is, he shall smite the houses both of great and small, of the princes, and of the common people, either with an earthquake, so that they shall part asunder and fall; or, being left without inhabitants, shall of course become desolate, there being none to repair their breaches. Some understand, by the “great house”, the ten tribes of Israel; and, by the “little house”, the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin; to which sense the Targum seems to incline, “he will smite the great kingdom with a mighty stroke, and the little kingdom with a weak stroke.”
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-14 - How dreadful, how miserable, is the case of those whose eternal rui the Lord himself has sworn; for he can execute his purpose, and non can alter it! Those hearts are wretchedly hardened that will not be brought to mention God's name, and to worship him, when the hand of God is gone out against them, when sickness and death are in their families. Those that will not be tilled as fields, shall be abandone as rocks. When our services of God are soured with sin, his providence will justly be made bitter to us. Men should take warning not to harde their hearts, for those who walk in pride, God will destroy __________________________________________________________________
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