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New Living Translation

Amos 6:9

(If there are ten men left in one house, they will all 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.
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 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 Sovereign Lord has sworn by his own name, and this is what he, the Lord God of Heaven's Armies, says: "I despise the arrogance of Israel, and I hate their fortresses. I will give this city and everything in it to their enemies." 9 (If there are ten men left in one house, they will all die. 10 And when a relative who is responsible to dispose of the dead goes into the house to carry out the bodies, he will ask the last survivor, "Is anyone else with you?" When the person begins to swear, "No, by . . . ," he will interrupt and say, "Stop! Don't even mention the name of the Lord .") 11 When the Lord gives the command, homes both great and small will be smashed to pieces. 12 Can horses gallop over boulders? Can oxen be used to plow them? But that's how foolish you are when you turn justice into poison and the sweet fruit of righteousness into bitterness. 13 And you brag about your conquest of Lo-debar. You boast, "Didn't we take Karnaim by our own strength?" 14 "O people of Israel, I am about to bring an enemy nation against you," says the Lord God of Heaven's Armies. "They will oppress you throughout your land— from Lebo-hamath in the north to the Arabah Valley in the south."

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 account of the creation of the heavens and the earth. When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
Genesis 5:1
This is the written account of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them to be like himself.
Genesis 5:22
After the birth of Methuselah, Enoch lived in close fellowship with God for another 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:24
walking in close fellowship with God. Then one day he disappeared, because God took him.
Genesis 6:9
This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on earth at the time, and he walked in close fellowship with God.
Genesis 6:15
Make the boat 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
Genesis 7:1
When everything was ready, the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous.
Genesis 10:1
This is the account of the families of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the three sons of Noah. Many children were born to them after the great flood.
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am El-Shaddai—‘God Almighty.' Serve me faithfully and live a blameless life.
Genesis 48:15
Then he blessed Joseph and said, "May the God before whom my grandfather Abraham and my father, Isaac, walked— the God who has been my shepherd all my life, to this very 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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