John Gill's Exposition on Amos 6:11

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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 (<300315>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.”

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