And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
Parallel translations
- WEB It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
- BSB And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.
- NKJV Then it shall come to pass, that if ten men remain in one house, they shall die.
- NASB And it will be, if ten men are left in one house, they will die.
- NLT (If there are ten men left in one house, they will all die.
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Quick answer
The judgment will be so devastating that even ten men sheltering in one house will all die. No refuge will withstand the coming destruction.
Overview
This stark image conveys the totality of the coming calamity, likely from war and plague, where even hiding together brings no rescue. Numbers and shelter offer no defense against God's decree. It is a sobering reminder that escape from divine judgment is found not in human refuge but in the Lord who saves through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Amos 5:3For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
- Esth 9:10The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
- 1 Sam 2:33And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
- Job 20:28The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
- Job 1:19And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
- Esth 5:11And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
- Ps 109:13Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
- Job 1:2And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
- Isa 14:21Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
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Christ at the center
Amid judgment on injustice, Amos promises the raising up of David's fallen tent — read by James in Acts 15 as the ingathering of the nations into the kingdom of the risen Christ.
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