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Legacy Standard Bible

Amos 6:9

And it will be, if ten men are left in one house, they 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.
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.
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

8Lord Yahweh has sworn by Himself, Yahweh God of hosts has declared:"I abhor the lofty pride of JacobAnd hate his citadels;Therefore I will deliver up the city as well as its fullness." 9And it will be, if ten men are left in one house, they will die. 10Then one's uncle, or the one who burns his bones, will lift him up to bring out his bones from the house, and he will say to the one who is in the innermost part of the house, "Is anyone else with you?" And that one will say, "No one." Then he will answer, "Keep quiet. For the name of Yahweh is not to be mentioned." 11For behold, Yahweh is going to command and will strike the great house to pieces and the small house to fragments. 12Do horses run on rocks?Or does one plow them with oxen?Yet you have overturned justice into gallAnd the fruit of righteousness into wormwood, 13You who are glad in Lo‑debarAnd say, "Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim for ourselves?" 14"For behold, I am going to raise up a nation against you,O house of Israel," declares Yahweh God of hosts,"And they will press down on you from Lebo‑hamathTo the brook 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 heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and heaven.
Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
Genesis 5:22
Then Enoch walked with God 300 years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among those in his generations; Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:15
Now this is how you shall make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits.
Genesis 7:1
Then Yahweh said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this generation.
Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood.
Genesis 17:1
Now it happened that when Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him,"I am God Almighty;Walk before Me and be blameless,
Genesis 48:15
And he blessed Joseph and said,"May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,The God who has been my shepherd throughout my life to 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.


 
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