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Amos 6:9

At that time ten people in one house might survive, but they too will die.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - War;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Plague or Pestilence, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Burial;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amos;  

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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
Then it will come about that if there are still ten men in a house, death will overtake them.
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 used his own name and made an oath. The Lord God All-Powerful said, "I hate what Jacob is proud of. I hate his strong towers. So I will let an enemy take the city and everything in it." 9 At that time ten people in one house might survive, but they too will die. 10 And when someone dies, a relative will come to get the body so that it can be taken out and burned. Relatives will come to take away the bones. They will call to anyone who might be hiding back in the house, "Are there any other dead bodies in there with you?" That person will answer, "No, …." But the relative will interrupt and say, "Hush! We must not mention the name of the Lord ." 11 Look, the Lord will give the command, and the large houses will be broken to pieces, and the small houses will be broken to small pieces. 12 Do horses run over loose rocks? No, and people don't use cows for plowing. But you turned everything upside down. You changed justice and goodness to bitter poison. 13 You are so excited about defeating Lo Debar. And you boast, "We have taken Karnaim by our own strength." 14 "But Israel, I will bring a nation against you that will bring troubles to your whole country from Lebo Hamath to Arabah Brook." This is what the Lord God All-Powerful said.

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
This is the story about the creation of the sky and the earth. This is what happened when the Lord God made the earth and the sky.
Genesis 5:1
This is the history of Adam's family. When God created people, he made them like himself.
Genesis 5:22
After Methuselah was born, Enoch walked with God for 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:24
One day Enoch was walking with God, and he disappeared. God took him.
Genesis 6:9
This is the history of Noah's family. He was a good man all his life, and he always followed God.
Genesis 6:15
"This is the size I want you to make the boat: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.
Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are a good man, even among the evil people of this time. So gather your family, and all of you go into the boat.
Genesis 10:1
This is the history of the families of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They are Noah's sons. These men had children after the flood.
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him. He said, "I am God All-Powerful. Obey me and live the right way.
Genesis 48:15
And Israel blessed Joseph and said, "My ancestors, Abraham and Isaac, worshiped our God, and that God has led me all my life.

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.


 
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