Amos 6:12

"“For, behold, the LORD commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits."

Key Reflection

This verse conveys a powerful message of divine judgment. The Lord declares that both large and small houses will be destroyed, emphasizing that no one is exempt from His wrath, highlighting the severity of spiritual corruption within Israel.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The two images both represent a toil, which people would condemn as absurd, destructive, as well as fruitless. The horse’s hoofs or his limbs would be broken; the plowing-gear would be destroyed. The prophet gains the attention by the question. What then? they ask. The answer is implied by the for, which follows. Ye are they, who are so doing. As absurd is it to seek gain from injustice and oppression, to which God had annexed loss and woe, temporal and eternal. More easy to change the course of nature or the use of things of nature, than the course of God’s Providence or the laws of His just retribution.

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