Amos 6:9

World English Bible (2000)

It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

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Referenced Verses

  • Amos 5:3 : 3 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel."
  • 1 Sam 2:33 : 33 The man of yours, [whom] I shall not cut off from my altar, [shall be] to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.
  • Esth 5:11 : 11 Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
  • Esth 9:10 : 10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew's enemy, but they didn't lay their hand on the plunder.
  • Job 1:2 : 2 There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
  • Job 1:19 : 19 and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you."
  • Job 20:28 : 28 The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.
  • Ps 109:13 : 13 Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
  • Isa 14:21 : 21 Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.

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  • Amos 6:10-11
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    83%

    10 "When a man's relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, 'Is there yet any with you?' And he says, 'No;' then he will say, 'Hush! Indeed we must not mention the name of Yahweh.'

    11 "For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.

  • Amos 5:3
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    3 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel."

  • Ezek 6:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

    12 He who is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he who is near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath on them.

  • Ezek 9:4-8
    5 verses
    75%

    4 Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in its midst.

    5 To the others he said in my hearing, Go through the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have pity;

    6 kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.

    7 He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth! They went forth, and struck in the city.

    8 It happened, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell on my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem?

  • Amos 9:8-10
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    74%

    8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," says Yahweh.

    9 "For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.

    10 All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, 'Evil won't overtake nor meet us.'

  • Jer 8:3
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    3 Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them, says Yahweh of Armies.

  • Jer 21:9
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    9 He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey.

  • Jer 21:6
    73%

    6 I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal: they shall die of a great pestilence.

  • Isa 5:9
    73%

    9 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

  • Jer 42:17
    73%

    17 So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there: they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.

  • Amos 6:8
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    8 "The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself," says Yahweh, the God of Armies: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

  • Jer 9:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.

    22 Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather [them].

  • Zech 13:8
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    8 It shall happen that in all the land," says Yahweh, "two parts in it will be cut off and die; but the third will be left in it.

  • Isa 6:12
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    12 And Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

  • Amos 9:1
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    1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.

  • Jer 15:2
    72%

    2 It shall happen, when they tell you, Where shall we go forth? Then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.

  • Ezek 14:16
    72%

    16 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only should be delivered, but the land should be desolate.

  • Ezek 7:15
    72%

    15 The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within: he who is in the field shall die with the sword: and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

  • 1 Kgs 9:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7 then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

    8 Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, 'Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?'

  • Ezek 6:7
    71%

    7 The slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

  • Ezek 12:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

    17 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 14:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be delivered themselves.

    19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;

  • Ezek 5:10
    71%

    10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds.

  • Jer 6:12
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    12 Their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh."

  • Deut 2:16
    71%

    16 So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

  • Jer 11:22
    71%

    22 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;

  • Jer 16:6
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    6 Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;

  • Isa 24:6
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    6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

  • Ezek 5:12
    71%

    12 A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.

  • Job 1:19
    70%

    19 and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you."

  • Jer 38:2
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    2 Thus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey, and he shall live.

  • Ezek 11:6
    70%

    6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.

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    40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.

  • Lev 14:45
    70%

    45 He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house's mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.

  • Exod 9:6
    70%

    6 Yahweh did that thing on the next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died.

  • Amos 5:6
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    6 Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

  • Rev 9:6
    70%

    6 In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

  • Jer 16:10
    70%

    10 It shall happen, when you shall show this people all these words, and they shall tell you, Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?