Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 One's relative will pick up the corpse to carry them from the house for burning, saying to whomever remains inside the house, "Is there anyone still with you?' And he will say, "No.' He will respond, "Be quiet, because we do not mention the name "LORD".' 11 For indeed, the LORD is giving the command and he will smash the large house to rubble and the small house into bits. 12 "Horses don't run over bare rock, do they? One doesn't plow rock with oxen, does he? But you have turned justice to gall, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness.


Cross References

Amos 3:15

I will wreck both the winter house and the summer house, and the ivory houses will fall. These palaces will surely fall," declares the LORD.

Isaiah 55:11

so will my message be that goes out of my mouth it won't return to me empty. Instead, it will accomplish what I desire, and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

2 Kings 25:9

and set fire to the LORD's Temple, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He even incinerated the lavish homes.

Psalm 105:16

He declared a famine on the land; destroying the entire food supply.

Psalm 105:31

He spoke, and a swarm of insects invaded their land.

Psalm 105:34

Then he commanded the locust to come grasshoppers without number.

Ecclesiastes 10:18

Through slothfulness the roof deteriorates, and a house leaks because of idleness.

Isaiah 10:5-6

"How terrible it will be for Assyria, the rod of my anger! The club is in their hands!

Isaiah 13:3

I myself have commanded my consecrated ones; I have also summoned my warriors, those who rejoice in my triumph, to carry out my angry judgments.

Isaiah 46:10-11

I declare from the beginning things to follow, and from ancient times things that have not yet been done; saying, "My purpose will stand, and he will accomplish everything that I please.'

Ezekiel 29:18-20

"Son of Man, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon made his army work very hard to attack Tyre. They tore their hair out and rubbed their shoulders raw! Despite all of that work trying to capture Tyre, neither he nor his army got paid from Tyre for all that!

Hosea 13:16

Samaria will be held guilty, because she has rebelled against her God. By the sword they will fall with their infants dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women torn open."

Amos 3:6-7

And when an alarm sounds in the city, the people will tremble, won't they? If there is trouble in a city, the LORD has brought it about, has he not?"

Amos 6:8

"The Lord GOD has sworn by himself," declares the LORD, the God of the Heavenly Armies, "I utterly detest the arrogance of Jacob; I hate his fortresses; and I will deliver up the city, along with everyone in it.

Amos 9:1

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar as he was saying, "Strike the doorposts so that the thresholds tremble, bringing them down on the heads of all of them. Those who survive I will kill with the sword. Those who flee will not escape. There will be no deliverance for the fugitives.

Amos 9:9

"Look! I'm giving the order: I will sift the house of Israel throughout all the nations, as one sifts with a sieve, yet not a single kernel will reach the ground!

Nahum 1:14

Now this is what the Lord has decreed about you, Nineveh: "There will be no more children born to carry on your name. I will cut out the graven and molten images from the temples of your gods. I myself will dig your grave, because you are vile."

Zechariah 14:2

I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem, to lay siege against it. The city will be captured, the houses will be ransacked, the women raped, and half of the city will go into exile, but the remaining people will not be cut off from the city.

Luke 19:44

They will level you to the ground you and those who live within your city limits. They will not leave one stone on another within your walls, because you didn't recognize the time when you were visited."

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