Amos 6:9
Amos chapter 6 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
Context
v.8The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by himself, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts: I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces; therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
v.9This passage
v.10And when a man’s uncle shall take him up, even he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No; then shall he say, Hold thy peace; for we may not make mention of the name of Jehovah.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 1:2
And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
- Job 20:28
The increase of his house shall depart; His goodsshall flow away in the day of his wrath.
- 1 Samuel 2:33
And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thy heart; and all the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age.
- Isaiah 14:21
Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.
- Psalms 109:13
Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
- Job 1:19
and, 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.