And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
If there remain ten men in one house ... they shall die - (Leviticus 26:26; Zechariah 8:23). If as many as ten remain in a house (a rare case, and only in the scattered villages, as there will be scarcely a house in which the enemy will leave any), they shall all, to a man, die of the plague-a usual concomitant of war in the East (Jeremiah 24:10; Jeremiah 44:13; Ezekiel 6:11). In the mention of the ten men there may be an allusion to Sodom. God promised He would not destroy the city if ten righteous men were found in it (Genesis 18:32). In the city of Samaria even ten in one house, who survived the chastizement, turned to God; therefore there was to be a general destruction.