Amos 6:9

Amos 6:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
• New International Version (NIV)If ten people are left in one house, they too will die.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And if ten men remain in one house, they shall die.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Then it shall come to pass, that if ten men remain in one house, they shall die.

Context of Amos 6:9

7Therefore shall they now go captive with the first that go captive; and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away. 8The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by himself, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts: I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces; therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein. And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. 10And when a man’s uncle shall take him up, even he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No; then shall he say, Hold thy peace; for we may not make mention of the name of Jehovah. 11For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

Amos 6:9 word by word

וְהָיָ֗ה אִם־יִוָּ֨תְר֜וּ עֲשָׂרָ֧ה אֲנָשִׁ֛ים בְּבַ֥יִת אֶחָ֖ד וָמֵֽתוּ׃Read the interlinear

• tenעֶשֶׂר‛eώer ‛ăώârâh · tenH6235
• menאִישׁ'îysh · manH376
• oneאֶחָד'echâd · oneH259
• houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• dieמוּתmûth · to dieH4191

Cross-references for Amos 6:9

• Amos 5:3For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, to the house of Israel.
• 1 Samuel 2:33And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thy heart; and all the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age.
• Esther 5:11And Haman recounted unto them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
• Esther 9:10the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, slew they; but on the spoil they laid not their hand.
• Job 1:2And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
• Job 20:28The increase of his house shall depart; His goodsshall flow away in the day of his wrath.
• Psalms 109:13Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
• Isaiah 14:21Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.

Commentaries on Amos 6:9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Ten men - they shall die - All shall be cut off by the sword, or by captivity, or by famine.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9If there shall remain ten men - He probably still denounces the punishment of the rich inhabitants of the palaces, since in these only, of old, would there be found “ten men.” They died, it seems, at once, and so probably through the plague, the common companion. of the siege. The prophet had before compared them to Sodom. It may be, that, in this mention of “ten men,” he tacitly refers to the history of that destruction. Then God promised, not to destroy…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-14Verses 8-14 How dreadful, how miserable, is the case of those whose eternal ruin the Lord himself has sworn; for he can execute his purpose, and none can alter it! Those hearts are wretchedly hardened that will not be brought to mention God's name, and to worship him, when the hand of God is gone out against them, when sickness and death are in their families. Those that will not be tilled as fields, shall be abandoned as rocks. When our services of God…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-10These verses vividly describe the widespread killing due to military conquest as promised in Amos 6:8.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. If as many as ten (Le 26:26; Zec 8:23) remain in a house (a rare case, and only in the scattered villages, as there will be scarcely a house in which the enemy will leave any), they shall all, to a man, die of the plague, a frequent concomitant of war in the East (Jr 24:10; 44:13; Eze 6:11).Read the comment

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Commentaries on Amos 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings