John Gill Commentary Amos 6:9

"And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die." — Amos 6:9 (ASV)

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.