Amos 6:11

New American Bible - revised edition

Indeed, the Lord has given the command to shatter the great house to bits, and reduce the small house to rubble.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:9

He burned the house of the Lord, the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem (every noble house); he destroyed them by fire.

Psalm 105:16

Then he called down a famine on the land, destroyed the grain that sustained them.

Psalm 105:31

He spoke and there came swarms of flies, gnats through all their country.

Psalm 105:34

He spoke and the locusts came, grasshoppers without number.

Ecclesiastes 10:18

Because of laziness, the rafters sag; when hands are slack, the house leaks.

Isaiah 13:3

I have commanded my consecrated ones, I have summoned my warriors, eager and bold to carry out my anger.

Isaiah 55:11

So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; It shall not return to me empty, but shall do what pleases me, achieving the end for which I sent it.

Amos 3:15

I will strike the winter house and the summer house; The houses of ivory shall lie in ruin, and their many rooms shall be no more— oracle of the Lord.

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you tax the destitute and exact from them levies of grain, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, you shall not live in them; Though you have planted choice vineyards, you shall not drink their wine.

Amos 6:8

The Lord God has sworn by his very self— an oracle of the Lord, the God of hosts: I abhor the pride of Jacob, I hate his strongholds, and I will hand over the city with everything in it;

Amos 9:1

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar. And he said: Strike the capitals so that the threshold shakes! Break them off on the heads of them all! Those who are left I will slay with the sword. Not one shall get away, no survivor shall escape.

Amos 9:9

For see, I have given the command to sift the house of Israel among all the nations, As one sifts with a sieve, letting no pebble fall to the ground.

Nahum 1:14

The Lord has commanded regarding you: no descendant will again bear your name; From the house of your gods I will abolish the carved and the molten image; I will make your grave a dung heap.

Zechariah 14:2

And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: The city will be taken, houses will be plundered, women raped; half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.

Malachi 1:4

If Edom says, “We have been crushed, but we will rebuild the ruins,” Thus says the Lord of hosts: They indeed may build, but I will tear down, And they shall be called “territory of wickedness,” the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.

Luke 19:44

They will smash you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another within you because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.” The Cleansing of the Temple.