Amos 6:9

Bible in Basic English

Then it will come about that if there are still ten men in a house, death will overtake them.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
And if there are ten men left in one house, they will die.

Hebrew Names Version
It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house, That they shall die.

King James Version (1611)
And it shall come to passe, if there remaine tenne men in one house, that they shall die.

King James Version
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

English Standard Version
And if ten men remain in one house, they shall die.

New American Standard Bible
And it will be, if ten men are left in one house, they will die.

New Century Version
At that time there might be only ten people left alive in just one house, but they will also die.

Amplified Bible
And it shall come to pass that if there remain ten men in one house, they shall die [by the pestilence that comes with war].

Geneva Bible (1587)
And if there remaine ten men in one house, they shal die.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And it will be, if ten men are left in one house, they will die.

Legacy Standard Bible
And it will be, if ten men are left in one house, they will die.

Berean Standard Bible
And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.

Contemporary English Version
If only ten of you survive by hiding in a house you will still die.

Complete Jewish Bible
When that day comes, if ten men remain in one house, they will die.

Darby Translation
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

Easy-to-Read Version
At that time ten people in one house might survive, but they too will die.

George Lamsa Translation
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house that they shall die.

Good News Translation
If there are ten men left in a family, they will die.

Lexham English Bible
And then if ten people remain in one house, they too will die.

Literal Translation
And it shall be, if ten men remain in one house, then they shall die.

American Standard Version
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And if there remayne ten men in one house, they shall dye,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it shall come to pass, if there be ten men left in one house, that they shall die.

English Revised Version
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

World English Bible
It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house, That they shall die.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that if ten men ben left in oon hous, and thei schulen die.

Update Bible Version
And it shall come to pass, if ten men remain in one house, that they shall die.

Webster's Bible Translation
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, they shall die.

New English Translation
If ten men are left in one house, they too will die.

New King James Version
Then it shall come to pass, that if ten men remain in one house, they shall die.

New Living Translation
(If there are ten men left in one house, they will all die.

New Life Bible
If ten men are left in one house, they will die.

New Revised Standard
If ten people remain in one house, they shall die.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And it shall come to pass, though there be left remaining ten men in one house, yet shall they die;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if there remain ten men in one house, they also shall die.

Revised Standard Version
And if ten men remain in one house, they shall die.

Young's Literal Translation
And if there are left ten persons in one house, It hath come to pass -- that they have died.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so that though there remayne ten men in one house, they shal dye.

THE MESSAGE
Ten men are in a house, all dead. A relative comes and gets the bodies to prepare them for a decent burial. He discovers a survivor huddled in a closet and asks, "Are there any more?" The answer: "Not a soul. But hush! God must not be mentioned in this desecrated place."

Contextual Overview

⁸ The Lord God has taken an oath by himself, says the Lord, the God of armies: the pride of Jacob is disgusting to me, and I have hate for his great houses: so I will give up the town with everything in it. ⁹ Then it will come about that if there are still ten men in a house, death will overtake them. ¹⁰ And when a man's relation, even the one who is responsible for burning his body, lifting him up to take his bones out of the house, says to him who is in the inmost part of the house, Is there still anyone with you? and he says, No; then he will say, Keep quiet, for the name of the Lord may not be named. ¹¹ For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken. ¹² Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant? ¹³ You whose joy is in a thing of no value, who say, Have we not taken for ourselves horns by the strength which is ours? ¹⁴ For see, I will send against you a nation, O Israel, says the Lord, the God of armies, ruling you cruelly from the way into Hamath as far as the stream of the Arabah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

if: Amos 5:3, 1 Samuel 2:33, Esther 5:11, Esther 9:10, Job 1:2, Job 1:19, Job 20:28, Psalms 109:13, Isaiah 14:21

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 16:4 - not Ezekiel 24:22 - General Amos 8:3 - they shall

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;

Genesis 5:22
And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

Genesis 5:24
And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him.

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.

Genesis 6:15
And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.

Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters

Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

Genesis 48:15
And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall come to pass,.... When the city is delivered up and taken:

if there remain; who are not carried captive, or destroyed by the sword:

ten men in one house; that is, many, a certain number for an uncertain:

that they shall die; either with famine, or by the pestilence, though they have escaped the other calamities; so general shall the destruction be, by one means or another.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If 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 the city, if there were ten righteous in it Genesis 18:32. Here were “ten left,” not in one city, but in one house. Had God forgotten His loving-kindness? No! but, in Samaria, not even ten who “remained over,” and so had survived after the chastisement had begun, turned to God. All then were to be taken or destroyed. The miseries of its three years’ siege by Shalmanezer may be filled up from those of its earlier siege by Benhadad 2 Kings 6:24-29, or from those of Jerusalem. The sufferings of a siege are in proportion to the obstinacy of the defense; and Samaria resisted for twice the time in which Jerusalem was reduced by famine at its first captivity.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 6:9. Ten men - they shall die. — ALL shall be cut off by the sword, or by captivity, or by famine.