◄ Amos 6:9 ►
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Good News Translation
If there are ten men left in a family, they will die.

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

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

New American Bible
Should there remain ten people in a single house, these shall die.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And if there remain ten men in one house, they also shall die.

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Amos 5:3 For thus saith the Lord God: The city, out of which came forth a thousand, there shall be left in it a hundred: and out of which there came a hundred, there shall be left in it ten, in the house of Israel.

1 Samuel 2:33 However, I will not altogether take away a man of thee from my altar: but that thy eyes may faint, and thy soul be spent: and a great part of thy house shall die, when they come to man's estate.

Esther 5:11 And he declared to them the greatness of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and with how great glory the king had advanced him above all his princes and servants.

Esther 9:10 And when they had slain them, they would not touch the spoils of their goods.

Job 1:2,19 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. . . .

Job 20:28 The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God's wrath.

Psalm 109:13 May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.

Isaiah 14:21 Prepare his children for slaughter for the iniquity of their fathers: they shall not rise up, nor inherit the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

Context
The Pride of Israel
8The Lord God hath sworn by his own soul, saith the Lord the God of hosts: I detest the pride of Jacob, and I hate his houses, and I will deliver up the city with the inhabitants thereof. 9And if there remain ten men in one house, they also shall die.10And a man's kinsman shall take him up, and shall burn him, that he may carry the bones out of the house; and he shall say to him that is in the inner rooms of the house: Is there yet any with thee?…
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:21
For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.

Amos 5:3
For thus saith the Lord God: The city, out of which came forth a thousand, there shall be left in it a hundred: and out of which there came a hundred, there shall be left in it ten, in the house of Israel.

Amos 6:8
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