New English Translation
Amos 6:9
9If ten men are left in one house, they too will die.
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 they will now be the first to go into exile, and the religious banquets where they sprawl on couches will end. 8The sovereign Lord confirms this oath by his very own life. The Lord, the God who commands armies, is speaking: “I despise Jacob’s arrogance; I hate their fortresses. I will hand over to their enemies the city of Samaria and everything in it.” If ten men are left in one house, they too will die. 10When their close relatives, the ones who will burn the corpses, pick up their bodies to remove the bones from the house, they will say to anyone who is in the inner rooms of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” He will respond, “Be quiet! Don’t invoke the Lord’s name!” 11Indeed, look! The Lord is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.
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וְהָיָ֗ה אִם־יִוָּ֨תְר֜וּ עֲשָׂרָ֧ה אֲנָשִׁ֛ים בְּבַ֥יִת אֶחָ֖ד וָמֵֽתוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Amos 6:9
- Amos 5:3The sovereign Lord says this: “The city that marches out with a thousand soldiers will have only a hundred left; the town that marches out with a hundred soldiers will have only ten left for the family of Israel.”
- 1 Samuel 2:33Any one of you that I do not cut off from my altar, I will cause your eyes to fail and will cause you grief. All of those born to your family will die in the prime of life.
- Esther 5:11Haman then recounted to them his fabulous wealth, his many sons, and how the king had magnified him and exalted him over the king’s other officials and servants.
- Esther 9:10the ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. But they did not confiscate their property.
- Job 1:2Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.
- Job 20:28A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.
- Psalms 109:13May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!
- Isaiah 14:21Prepare to execute his sons for the sins their ancestors have committed. They must not rise up and take possession of the earth, or fill the surface 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
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