Amos 6:9

9 If ten people are left in one house, they will die.

Amos 6:9 Meaning and Commentary

Amos 6:9

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.

Amos 6:9 In-Context

7 That is why they will now be the first to go into exile. The celebrating of those sprawled around the banquet table will stop.

8 The Almighty LORD has sworn an oath on himself. The LORD God of Armies declares: I am disgusted with Jacob's pride, and I hate his palaces. So I will hand over the city and everything in it.

9 If ten people are left in one house, they will die.

10 If a relative or a mortician comes to take the dead bodies out of the house and asks someone who is inside the house, "Is there anyone else with you?" that person will answer, "No." "Hush," he will add. "We shouldn't mention the name of the LORD!"

11 The LORD is going to give the command to level big houses and flatten little houses.