Amos Chapter 6 verse 9 Holy Bible
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
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Then it will come about that if there are still ten men in a house, death will overtake them.
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And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
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And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
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It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house, That they shall die.
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And if there are left ten persons in one house, It hath come to pass -- that they have died.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - If there remain ten men in one house. If these escape death in war, they shall die of famine and pestilence in the three years' siege of Samaria (2 Kings 17:5). If the prophet is still referring to the rich chieftains, ten would be only a poor remnant of the inhabitants of their palaces. The LXX. adds, very unnecesarily, Καὶ ὑπολειφθήσονται οἱ κατάλοιποι, "And those remaining shall be left behind."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9, 10) Ten . . . uncle.--In some large house it might be that ten are left remaining, but even these are devoured by the pestilence which hovers in the track of war. Nine have fallen victims. Fathers and brothers are all gone, and the uncle comes in as the funereal burner, to carry out the corpse to the pyre, and finds in the innermost parts of the house the tenth victim of the fell disease yet alive. A hurried word or two passes between them: "Is there yet another with thee?" and the answer comes, "Not one." Then shall he say "Hush!" The lonely sufferer begins to curse the Lord for His judgments, or it may be he begins to call upon the Name of the Lord when it is too late, when, as a finishing touch of darkest gloom and despair, he is interrupted by a warning not to stir up Jehovah's wrath in this day of His visitation by even mentioning His name. This and one other passage (1Samuel 31:12) imply that under special circumstances the Hebrews burned their dead. In this case pestilence made cremation a necessity. The references in 2Chronicles 16:14; 2Chronicles 21:19; Jeremiah 34:5, are to honorific burning of spices in memory of the dead.
