Bible verse

Amos 6:9

And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.

Amos 6:9 · BSB

Amos 6:9 in context

The verses around it, from Amos 6.

5 You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.

6 You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

7 Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.

8 The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”

9 And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.

10 And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”

11 For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”

12 “Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

13 you who rejoice in Lo-debar and say, ‘Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?’

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Amos 6:9 in other translations

KJV

And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

ASV

And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

ERV

And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

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