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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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Albert Barnes
On Amos 6:9
18th Century
Theologian
If ten men remain—He probably still denounces the punishment of the rich inhabitants of the palaces, since only in these, formerly, would “t…
Charles Ellicott
On Amos 6:9–10
19th Century
Bishop
Ten ... uncle.—In some large house, it might be that ten are left, but even these are devoured by the pestilence …
John Calvin
On Amos 6:9
16th Century
Theologian
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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John Gill
On Amos 6:9
17th Century
Pastor
And it shall come to pass
When the city is delivered up and taken: if there remain ;
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Matthew Henry
On Amos 6:8–14
17th Century
Minister
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…