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

7You will be the first people that your enemies will take away as prisoners. You will no longer enjoy your feasts and wild parties. 8The Lord God Almighty has promised that this will surely happen. He has spoken this strong message: ‘The Israelites think that they are very strong. But I have turned against them. I hate their strong buildings. So I will give their great city and everything in it to their enemies.’ At that time, if ten people are safe together in one house, they will still all die. 10When a man comes to carry a dead body outside to burn it, he will ask his relative, ‘Is there anyone with you in the house?’ The relative will answer, ‘No.’ Then the man will say, ‘Be quiet!. Do not speak the name of the Lord!’ 11When the Lord gives his command, enemies will destroy all the houses, great and small. They will break them all into pieces.

Amos 6:9 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• And it shall come to pass, if there remainיָתַרyâthar · to remainH3498
• tenעֶשֶׂר‛eώer ‛ăώârâh · tenH6235
• menאֱנוֹשׁ'ĕnôsh · humanH582
• in oneאֶחָד'echâd · oneH259
• houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• that they shall dieמוּתmûth · to dieH4191

Cross-references for Amos 6:9

• Amos 5:3This is what the Lord God says to you: ‘1,000 soldiers will go out from a city to fight, but only 100 soldiers will come back. From another city, 100 soldiers will go out to fight, but only ten will come back.’
• 1 Samuel 2:33One of your descendants may continue to serve me as a priest. But he will be very sad and his eyes will become weak. Anyone who is born in your family will die when they are young.
• Esther 5:11Haman told them how rich he was, and how many sons he had. He told them of all the things that the king had done to give him great honour. He told them that he was now more important than all the king's other rulers and officers.
• Esther 9:10Those men were the ten sons of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. But the Jews did not take any of the things that belonged to the people that they killed.
• Job 1:2Job had seven sons and three daughters.
• Job 20:28A flood will destroy his house and everything that he has. That will happen on the day when God punishes people because he is angry with them.
• Psalms 109:13Remove all the descendants in his family. When his children die, may nobody remember his family any more!
• Isaiah 14:21Prepare to kill this king's children, because of the sins of their ancestors. Then his children will not rule the world. They will not build cities everywhere.’

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