Amos 6:11
For, behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Cross-reference
Amos 6:8 records God's oath to destroy the city — verse 11 then executes that sworn judgment.
Amos 3:15 similarly describes houses being destroyed — a parallel oracle underscoring God's judgment on Israel's pride.
Amos 9:1 similarly depicts God commanding to strike and shatter, reinforcing the theme of divine judgment on buildings and people.
Amos 3:6 teaches that disaster comes from the Lord, grounding the judgment command here in God's sovereignty.
Amos 3:7 reveals that God first discloses his plans to prophets, showing the destruction commanded here was foretold.
Amos 9:9 uses the same 'I will command' phrase and describes shaking Israel, though with a sifting metaphor rather than smashing.
2 Kings 25:9 records the burning of Jerusalem's great houses — fulfilling the destruction prophesied in Amos.
Isaiah 55:11 reinforces that God's word never fails — directly paralleling the unstoppable destruction ordered in Amos.
In Luke 19:44, Jesus' prophecy of Jerusalem's destruction mirrors Amos's image of houses smashed to pieces — both divine judgment reducing buildings to rubble.
In Isaiah 5:9, the same judgment of desolate houses appears — large and beautiful houses left empty, directly paralleling Amos's smashed houses.
Jeremiah 52:13 records the burning of great houses in Jerusalem — a direct historical fulfillment of the kind of judgment Amos prophesies.
Isaiah 10:5 presents Assyria as God's rod of anger, showing God uses agents to judge—here the command is to smash directly.
Isaiah 10:6 continues: God commands Assyria to plunder and trample—another example of God commanding destruction, though through a foreign nation.
Isaiah 13:3 has God commanding his consecrated ones to execute his anger—similar to the command here, but the agents are different.
Isaiah 46:11 emphasizes God's spoken word accomplishes its purpose — mirroring the effective command in Amos.