Amos 6:9

9 If ten people remain in one house, they shall 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 Therefore they shall now be the first to go into exile, and the revelry of the loungers shall pass away.

8 The Lord God has sworn by himself (says the Lord, the God of hosts): I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his strongholds; and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.

9 If ten people remain in one house, they shall die.

10 And if a relative, one who burns the dead, shall take up the body to bring it out of the house, and shall say to someone in the innermost parts of the house, "Is anyone else with you?" the answer will come, "No." Then the relative shall say, "Hush! We must not mention the name of the Lord."

11 See, the Lord commands, and the great house shall be shattered to bits, and the little house to pieces.