Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Amos 6:11

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Amos 6:11 - 6:11

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Amos 6:11 - 6:11

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

6:1 - 6:1
6:2 - 6:2
6:3 - 6:3
6:4 - 6:4
6:5 - 6:5
6:6 - 6:6
6:7 - 6:7
6:8 - 6:8
6:9 - 6:9
6:10 - 6:10
6:11 - 6:11
6:12 - 6:12
6:13 - 6:13
6:14 - 6:14

commandeth, and he will smite - His word of command, when once given, cannot but be fulfilled (Isa 55:11). His mere word is enough to smite with destruction.

great house ... little house - He will spare none, great or small (Amo 3:15). Jerome interprets “the great house” as Israel, and “the small house” as Judah: the former being reduced to branches or ruins, literally, “small drops”; the latter, though injured with “clefts” or rents, which threaten its fall, yet still permitted to stand.