Charles Ellicott Commentary Amos 6:11

"For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts." — Amos 6:11 (ASV)

Breaches.— For this read ruins. (See end of Note on Amos 6:8.) The overthrow of all classes of the population is here referred to.