Amos 6:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

It shall come to pass; the thing is decreed, and shall take effect. If there remain, or escape the enemies sword, or the famine of Samaria, besieged three years. Ten men in one house; many men, for it is a certain number expressed, though an uncertain be understood. They shall die, either of pestilence, or by some other stroke of God's hand; though they escape a while they shall not finally escape, 2 Kings 17:5.

Amos 6:9

9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.