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It shall happen, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
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Inescapable Judgment
All commentators agree this verse depicts a total and inescapable judgment. Even if a large group of ten men survived an initial attack on their city, they would still perish. Scholars explain this severe judgment, likely by plague or famine following a siege, came because God's previous, milder punishments had failed to bring the people to repentance.
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Amos
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If ten men remain—He probably still denounces the punishment of the rich inhabitants of the palaces, since only in these, formerly, would “t…
19th Century
Anglican
Ten ... uncle.—In some large house, it might be that ten are left, but even these are devoured by the pestilence …
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet here amplifies the calamity that was near the people; as if he had said that God would not now take moderate vengeance on that reprobat…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And it shall come to pass When the city is delivered up and taken: if there remain ; …
How dreadful, how miserable, is the case of those whose eternal ruin the Lord himself has sworn; for he can execute his purpose, and none can alter…
