{"id":22470,"date":"2022-09-24T09:32:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T14:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-amos-69\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T09:32:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T14:32:05","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-amos-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-amos-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Amos 6:9"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 9<\/strong>. A house in which <em> ten men<\/em> were left, surviving the casualties and privations of a siege, must have been a fairly large one: no doubt, Amos has still in view the palaces of the wealthy (cf. <span class='bible'>Amo 3:15<\/span>). Those, however, who in such a house have escaped other dangers, <em> shall<\/em> nevertheless <em> die<\/em>, viz. by the pestilence, which the prophet pictures tacitly as raging in the city at the time.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 9 10<\/strong>. The terrible consequences of the siege.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>If there shall remain ten men &#8211; <\/B>He probably still denounces the punishment of the rich inhabitants of the palaces, since in these only, of old, would there be found ten men. They died, it seems, at once, and so probably through the plague, the common companion. of the siege. The prophet had before compared them to Sodom. It may be, that, in this mention of ten men, he tacitly refers to the history of that destruction. Then God promised, not to destroy the city, if there were ten righteous in it <span class='bible'>Gen 18:32<\/span>. Here were ten left, not in one city, but in one house. Had God forgotten His loving-kindness? No! but, in Samaria, not even ten who remained over, and so had survived after the chastisement had begun, turned to God. All then were to be taken or destroyed. The miseries of its three years siege by Shalmanezer may be filled up from those of its earlier siege by Benhadad <span class='bible'>2Ki 6:24-29<\/span>, or from those of Jerusalem. The sufferings of a siege are in proportion to the obstinacy of the defense; and Samaria resisted for twice the time in which Jerusalem was reduced by famine at its first captivity.<\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Albert Barnes&#8217; Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> Verse <span class='bible'>9<\/span>. <I><B>Ten men &#8211; they shall die.<\/B><\/I>] ALL shall be cut off by the sword, or by captivity, or by famine.<\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Adam Clarke&#8217;s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> <B>It shall come to pass; <\/B>the thing is decreed, and shall take effect. <\/P> <P><B>If there remain, <\/B>or escape the enemies sword, or the famine of Samaria, besieged three years. <\/P> <P><B>Ten men in one house; <\/B>many men, for it is a certain number expressed, though an uncertain be understood. <\/P> <P><B>They shall die, <\/B>either of pestilence, or by some other stroke of Gods hand; though they escape a while they shall not finally escape, <span class='bible'>2Ki 17:5<\/span>. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P><B>9.<\/B> If as many as <I>ten<\/I>(<span class='bible'>Lev 26:26<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Zec 8:23<\/span>)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 frequent concomitantof war in the East (<span class='bible'>Jer 24:10<\/span>;<span class='bible'>Jer 44:13<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Eze 6:11<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown&#8217;s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>And it shall come to pass<\/strong>,&#8230;. When the city is delivered up and taken:<\/p>\n<p><strong>if there remain<\/strong>; who are not carried captive, or destroyed by the sword:<\/p>\n<p><strong>ten men in one house<\/strong>; that is, many, a certain number for an uncertain:<\/p>\n<p><strong>that they shall die<\/strong>; 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.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> The Prophet here amplifies the calamity, which was nigh the people; as though he had said, that God would not now take moderate vengeance on that reprobate people, for he did nothing by dealing moderately with them: there was therefore nigh at hand the heaviest vengeance, which would reduce the people to nothing. This is the import of the Prophet&#8217;s words when he says, that  ten, if remaining in the same house, would die  But in naming ten survivors, he intimates that a slaughter had preceded, which had taken away either the half or at least some part of the family, since ten remained. At the same time this number shows how severe and dreadful a judgment of God awaited that people, that  ten  would be taken away together. But it rarely happens, even when a direful pestilence prevails, that so numerous a family entirely perishes; when three out of four, or six or five out of eight, are taken away, it is a diminution which usually greatly terrifies men: but when ten are taken away together, and no one is left, it is an evidence of an awful vengeance. <\/p>\n<p> We see then that the Prophet here denounces on the people utter ruin, for they could not be reformed by milder punishments: when God tried to recall them to a sane mind, he effected nothing. There was therefore no remedy for their desperate diseases: it was hence necessary entirely to take away those who were thus incurable.  Perish  then  shall the ten, who shall remain in one house  It follows &#8212; <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Calvin&#8217;s Complete Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCEFALSE PRIDE TURNS RIGHTEOUSNESS TO BITTERNESS<\/p>\n<p>TEXT: <span class='bible'>Amo. 6:9-14<\/span><\/p>\n<p>9<\/p>\n<p>And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.<\/p>\n<p>10<\/p>\n<p>And when a mans uncle shall take him up, even he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No; then shall he say, Hold thy peace; for we may not make mention of the name of Jehovah.<\/p>\n<p>11<\/p>\n<p>For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.<\/p>\n<p>12<\/p>\n<p>Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;<\/p>\n<p>13<\/p>\n<p>ye that rejoice in a thing of nought, that say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?<\/p>\n<p>14<\/p>\n<p>For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath unto the brook of the Arabah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>QUERIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a.<\/p>\n<p>Why should a mans uncle burn him and question him about anyone remaining in the house?<\/p>\n<p>b.<\/p>\n<p>Why could they not make mention of the name of Jehovah?<\/p>\n<p>c.<\/p>\n<p>What is the thing of nought?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PARAPHRASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So thorough shall be My destruction of this nation then, even if there are ten in one house they will all perish. And when the kinsman comes to take care of the dead there will be such a multitude of dead corpses he will have to burn the bodies instead of burying them. This relative will call to see if there is one last living person who has gone way back in the very back of the house in order to save his life. If there is one the kinsman will ask, Is there anyone else besides yourself alive in this house? If the answer comes back, No, the kinsman shall then call, Keep quiet then, and do not even speak the name of God lest His attention be drawn towards this place and He smite this house until there is not one left alive! The perversion of righteousness into false pride can no more save you than horses can run on rocks or oxen can plow the sea. You have bragged that you have, by your own doing, built an invincible military power but I tell you that you are putting your hopes on that which is nothing in My sight. I am going to bring against you an enemy nation, says the Omnipotent God, which will crush you down throughout the whole length and breadth of this land of Promise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The judgment will be complete. False pride, a perversion of righteousness, will not save them from Gods judgment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COMMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class='bible'>Amo. 6:9-11<\/span>. . . IF THERE REMAIN TEN . . . THEY SHALL DIE . . . EVEN HE THAT BURNETH HIM, . . . IS THERE YET ANY WITH THEE? . . . HOLD THY PEACE . . . THE GREAT HOUSE SHALL BE SMITTEN . . . AND THE LITTLE HOUSE . . . Jehovah is going to bring such destruction and death to Israel that even in the palaces of the rich and houses of the largest families where some may escape siege, famine and disease, even those who remain will die. Then where a near kinsman (<span class='bible'>Exo. 13:19<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jos. 24:32<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Ki. 13:21<\/span>) comes to inter the dead he will find so many corpses that he will be forced to burn them instead of bury them in order to quickly dispose of the possibility of contagion and stench. Only extreme emergencies made it necessary to burn a corpse, which in Israel was a penalty for extreme wickedness (cf. <span class='bible'>Lev. 20:14<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Lev. 21:19<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Sa. 31:11-13<\/span>). When this awful task is finished the kinsman calls, either to his helper or a survivor hiding in the farthest corner, Is anyone left alive. When the answer comes back, No! the kinsman hastens to warn the answerer not to mention the name of Jehovah (either in prayer or oath) lest the attention of Jehovah be drawn to this particular place and the one mentioning His name and he also be slain. Of course, Gods attention is at all times everywhere present! He needs no such drawing of His attention. Whether the people of the northern kingdom had fallen to such superstitious regard for Jehovah by associating Him with heathen gods or not we are not told. Amos paints this picture in order to show the complete hopelessness and despair that will grip the hearts of those very few survivors when Gods judgment begins to fall! Rich and poor alike have been guilty of turning away from Jehovah to serve their appetites and so the houses of the great and small will be destroyed alike!<\/p>\n<p><span class='bible'>Amo. 6:12-14<\/span> SHALL HORSES RUN UPON THE ROCK? . . . YE HAVE TURNED JUSTICE INTO GALL . . . YE THAT REJOICE IN A THING OF NOUGHT . . . I WILL RAISE UP AGAINST YOU A NATION . . . That they will be able to avert the judgment of God was as incongruous as their actions which were, in turn, as inconsistent as a horse running full speed upon rocks or as oxen plowing the sea. The fruit of their righteousness was wormwood, bitterness (see our comment on wormwood at <span class='bible'>Amo. 5:7<\/span>). Their righteousness was false righteousness which led to false pride. They perverted justice and proudly bragged of their military and economic power. But what they were putting their hopes in (military and economic power, and religious heritage) was nothingvain and powerless. Horns symbolize military power. They forgot and denied that God had anything to do with their prosperity and boasted that they attained it by their own abilities. This God denying pride is enmity against God. When man declares war on God there is nothing left for God to do but uphold His holiness and omnipotence. So God, as in this case, often uses secondary agents and agencies to carry out His will (cf. <span class='bible'>Isaiah 10<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Isaiah 45<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jeremiah 27<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Dan. 2:36<\/span> ff; <span class='bible'>Dan. 4:19<\/span> ff, etc.). Here, Israel is warned that God is going to raise up against them a nation. We know that nation to be Assyria (Hosea was the first to mention this enemy of Israel by name). This nation crushed the Land of Promise (including both Israel and Judah) from north to southfrom one end to the other which is where Hamath and the Arabah would be locatedthe extreme northern and southern boundaries of the whole land of promise, see <span class='bible'>2 Kings 17<\/span>. While Israel had more common sense than to run horses over rocks and plow seas with oxenwhile they acted so responsibly in the common things of life, they exhibited such irresponsibility in the most significant areas of human conductrighteousness and justice. So the Lord caused (as the original text emphasizes) a nation to rise up against this ungrateful, irresponsible, arrogant, sensual people. The message of Amos is still quite relevant and contemporary. Our society is almost a sister to that one in its ingratitude, irresponsibility, arrogance, sensuality. Amos was not able to call men back to God in his day, but he was willing to lay down his life if necessary to give Gods call to repentance. Can prophets of today succeed where Amos did not? Time alone will tell!<\/p>\n<p><strong>QUIZ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.<\/p>\n<p>What is the significance of ten remaining in the house?<\/p>\n<p>2.<\/p>\n<p>Why does the near kinsman come to burn the bones?<\/p>\n<p>3.<\/p>\n<p>Why does he tell the one answering him not to mention the name of Jehovah?<\/p>\n<p>4.<\/p>\n<p>Why the figure of speech of horses running on rocks and oxen plowing the seas?<\/p>\n<p>5.<\/p>\n<p>What was Israel rejoicing in that was called nought?<\/p>\n<p>6.<\/p>\n<p>Whom did God raise up against Israel?<\/p>\n<p>7.<\/p>\n<p>Why is the message of Amos so relevant? why is it so imperative?<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: College Press Bible Study Textbook Series<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(9, 10) <strong>Ten<\/strong> . . . <strong>uncle<\/strong>.In some large house it might be that ten are left remaining, but even these are devoured by the pestilence which hovers in the track of war. Nine have fallen victims. Fathers and brothers are all gone, and the uncle comes in as the funereal burner, to carry out the corpse to the pyre, and finds in the innermost parts of the house the tenth victim of the fell disease yet alive. A hurried word or two passes between them: Is there yet another with thee? and the answer comes, Not one. Then shall he say Hush! The lonely sufferer begins to curse the Lord for His judgments, or it may be he begins to call upon the Name of the Lord when it is too late, when, as a finishing touch of darkest gloom and despair, he is interrupted by a warning not to stir up Jehovahs wrath in this day of His visitation by even mentioning His name. This and one other passage (<span class='bible'>1Sa. 31:12<\/span>) imply that under special circumstances the Hebrews burned their dead. In this case pestilence made cremation a necessity. The references in <span class='bible'>2Ch. 16:14<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Ch. 21:19<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer. 34:5<\/span>, are to honorific burning of spices in memory of the dead.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Amo 6:9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 9. <strong> And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men, &amp;c.<\/strong> ] That is, many, as Zec 8:23 <span class='bible'>Lev 26:26<\/span> , because ten is the utmost of single number: <em> q.d.<\/em> though a considerable company escape the enemy, yet pestilence or some other destruction shall put an end to them. <\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/p>\n<p> They shall die<\/strong> ] See this fulfilled <span class='bible'>2Ki 17:5<\/span> . In which common calamity what a happiness had they, that belonging to the election of grace, could confidently say, as <span class='bible'>Hab 1:12<\/span> , &#8220;Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One? We shall not die&#8221; (or if we do, death may kill us, but cannot hurt us, <em> Occidere potest, non laedere<\/em> ). &#8220;O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.&#8221; The wicked are killed with death, <span class='bible'>Rev 2:23<\/span> , undone by it; to them it is no other but a trap door to hell, as to the saints it is as the valley of Achor, a door of hope, the very daybreak of eternal brightness, <span class='bible'>Hos 2:15<\/span> .<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>remain: survive after the seige. <\/p>\n<p>men. Plural of &#8216;enosh App-14. <\/p>\n<p>die: by pestilence <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Amo 6:9-14<\/p>\n<p>RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCE-FALSE<\/p>\n<p>PRIDE TURNS RIGHTEOUSNESS TO BITTERNESS<\/p>\n<p>TEXT: Amo 6:9-14<\/p>\n<p>The judgment will be complete. False pride, a perversion of righteousness, will not save them from Gods judgment.<\/p>\n<p>Amo 6:9-11. . . IF THERE REMAIN TEN . . . THEY SHALL DIE . . . EVEN HE THAT BURNETH HIM, . . . IS THERE YET ANY WITH THEE? . . . HOLD THY PEACE . . . THE GREAT HOUSE SHALL BE SMITTEN . . . AND THE LITTLE HOUSE . . . Jehovah is going to bring such destruction and death to Israel that even in the palaces of the rich and houses of the largest families where some may escape siege, famine and disease, even those who remain will die. Then where a near kinsman (Exo 13:19; Jos 24:32; 2Ki 13:21) comes to inter the dead he will find so many corpses that he will be forced to burn them instead of bury them in order to quickly dispose of the possibility of contagion and stench. Only extreme emergencies made it necessary to burn a corpse, which in Israel was a penalty for extreme wickedness (cf. Lev 20:14; Lev 21:19; 1Sa 31:11-13). When this awful task is finished the kinsman calls, either to his helper or a survivor hiding in the farthest corner, Is anyone left alive. When the answer comes back, No! the kinsman hastens to warn the answerer not to mention the name of Jehovah (either in prayer or oath) lest the attention of Jehovah be drawn to this particular place and the one mentioning His name and he also be slain. Of course, Gods attention is at all times everywhere present! He needs no such drawing of His attention. Whether the people of the northern kingdom had fallen to such superstitious regard for Jehovah by associating Him with heathen gods or not we are not told. Amos paints this picture in order to show the complete hopelessness and despair that will grip the hearts of those very few survivors when Gods judgment begins to fall! Rich and poor alike have been guilty of turning away from Jehovah to serve their appetites and so the houses of the great and small will be destroyed alike!  <\/p>\n<p>Zerr:  Amo 6:9. The destruction threatened was to be so complete that if a house contained 10 men. they would all die and would need to be disposed of by someone outside the building who was supposed to be interested in their cases.  Amo 6:10. It was customary in ancient times for the nearest relative living to bury the dead (see Gen 25:9; Gen 35:29; Jdg 16:31), which is the reason that the uncle is mentioned here. Burneth is rendered burial&#8221; in Moffatts translation, I shall Quote from Funk and Wagnalls Standard Bible Dictionary on the subject of Mode of Burial. Cremation was not practiced in Israel; the usage was rather to bury the dead, while cremation, of criminals for example (Leviticus 20; Leviticus 14; Lev 21:9; Jos 7:25), appears as a disgrace added to &#8220;the penalty of death. The burning of in connection with burial ceremonials sometimes might be mistaken for the burning of the bones of the dead (1 Samuel 31; 1 Samuel 12; 2Ch 16:11; Jer 31:5). By the sides of the house means someone near the house where those 10 men were just found dead. Is there yet any with thee; is there one that I have overlooked? Hold thy tongue, etc. The destruction decreed for the place was to be so complete that it would he of no use at that late hour to make any appeal to the Lord.  Amo 6:11. This verse explains why the remark was made in the close of the preceding one. The Lord had com-manded that just such a complete de-struction. was to come upon the people and houses of Israel as is described.<\/p>\n<p>Amo 6:12-14 SHALL HORSES RUN UPON THE ROCK? . . . YE HAVE TURNED JUSTICE INTO GALL . . . YE THAT REJOICE IN A THING OF NOUGHT . . . I WILL RAISE UP AGAINST YOU A NATION . . . That they will be able to avert the judgment of God was as incongruous as their actions which were, in turn, as inconsistent as a horse running full speed upon rocks or as oxen plowing the sea. The fruit of their righteousness was wormwood, bitterness (see our comment on wormwood at Amo 5:7). Their righteousness was false righteousness which led to false pride. They perverted justice and proudly bragged of their military and economic power. But what they were putting their hopes in (military and economic power, and religious heritage) was nothing-vain and powerless. Horns symbolize military power. They forgot and denied that God had anything to do with their prosperity and boasted that they attained it by their own abilities. This God denying pride is enmity against God. When man declares war on God there is nothing left for God to do but uphold His holiness and omnipotence. So God, as in this case, often uses secondary agents and agencies to carry out His will (cf. Isaiah 10; Isaiah 45; Jeremiah 27; Dan 2:36 ff; Dan 4:19 ff, etc.). Here, Israel is warned that God is going to raise up against them a nation. We know that nation to be Assyria (Hosea was the first to mention this enemy of Israel by name). This nation crushed the Land of Promise (including both Israel and Judah) from north to south-from one end to the other which is where Hamath and the Arabah would be located-the extreme northern and southern boundaries of the whole land of promise, see 2 Kings 17. While Israel had more common sense than to run horses over rocks and plow seas with oxen-while they acted so responsibly in the common things of life, they exhibited such irresponsibility in the most significant areas of human conduct-righteousness and justice. So the Lord caused (as the original text emphasizes) a nation to rise up against this ungrateful, irresponsible, arrogant, sensual people. The message of Amos is still quite relevant and contemporary. Our society is almost a sister to that one in its ingratitude, irresponsibility, arrogance, sensuality. Amos was not able to call men back to God in his day, but he was willing to lay down his life if necessary to give Gods call to repentance. Can prophets of today succeed where Amos did not? Time alone will tell!   <\/p>\n<p>Zerr:  Amo 6:12. The two questions in the beginning of this verse should be an-swered in the negative. The wickedness of the nation had turned good judgment into gall (bitterness), and righteousness had been supplanted by hemlock (poison). Therefore the Lord determined to strip the land of its fertility, and render it useless to work their beasts.  Amo 6:13. Strong says the figurative meaning of the original for horn is &#8220;power. These exacting leaders of Israel were boasting that they had power by reason of their own merit. Tile truth of the matter was that they beat down all who asked for their own rights, and usurped a position of almost absolute power.  Amo 6:14. Hemath was a place at the northern extremity of Palestine, and the wilderness refers to the valley at the south near the Dead Sea. The prediction is that a nation was to come against Israel and subdue the Whole territory between the points.<\/p>\n<p>Questions<\/p>\n<p>1. What is the significance of ten remaining in the house?<\/p>\n<p>2. Why does the near kinsman come to burn the bones?<\/p>\n<p>3. Why does he tell the one answering him not to mention the name of Jehovah?<\/p>\n<p>4. Why the figure of speech of horses running on rocks and oxen plowing the seas?<\/p>\n<p>5. What was Israel rejoicing in that was called nought?<\/p>\n<p>6. Whom did God raise up against Israel?<\/p>\n<p>7. Why is the message of Amos so relevant? why is it so imperative?<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>if: Amo 5:3, 1Sa 2:33, Est 5:11, Est 9:10, Job 1:2, Job 1:19, Job 20:28, Psa 109:13, Isa 14:21 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Jer 16:4 &#8211; not Eze 24:22 &#8211; General Amo 8:3 &#8211; they shall<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Amo 6:9. The destruction threatened was to be so complete that if a house contained 10 men. they would a!! die and would need to be disposed of by someone outside the building who was supposed to be Interested in their cases.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Amo 6:9-11. If there remain ten men in one house, &amp;c.  Those that escape the hands of the enemy shall die by the pestilence. And a mans uncle (or kinsman) shall take him up  Some friend or relation, whose duty it is to perform the last offices for the deceased, shall take him up directly and burn him: for so it should be rendered, and not, AND HE THAT burneth him. The meaning is, that he should not stay to perfume the body with rich ointments, as was the usual custom; nor should he bury it, but burn it to ashes, to prevent infection. To bring out the bones out of the house, &amp;c.  Or rather, that he may bring out, &amp;c., that is, that he may, as soon as possible, cleanse the house by the removal of the body. All that is said here, is strongly expressive of what is the case where a deadly pestilence rages. And shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house  Or near the house, out of which the bones are carried; Is there any yet with thee  Is there any yet living besides thyself belonging to this house? And he shall say, No  All the inhabitants of the house are dead. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue; for we may not make mention of the name of the Lord  As this clause has no immediate connection with, or relation to, the negative answer contained in the preceding clause, it is to be supposed that when the person has given that answer, and said that there was none left alive in the house, he utters, as is natural, some prayer to God for mercy or deliverance; on which the other speaks to him in this manner: as much as to say, It is in vain now to pray, or make supplication; for God will not now hear us, but we also shall be cut off by this dreadful pestilence, as the rest have been. Archbishop Newcome puts a different sense on the last clause, thus: Solitude shall reign in the house; and if one is left, he must be silent (see Amo 8:3) and retired, lest he be plundered of his scanty provisions. For behold, the Lord commandeth  Gives forth his commands to the enemy, namely, the Assyrians, to come against Israel. And he will smite the great house, and the little house, &amp;c.  People of all ranks, high and low, shall be sufferers in the common calamities.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>So thorough would be the overthrow that even if 10 men took refuge in one house they could not preserve their own lives. If the uncle of one of the dead rulers came to bury his nephew, or if a less interested undertaker did so, those still alive and hiding in the house would beg him not to reveal their presence. &quot;Undertaker&quot; is literally &quot;one who burns him.&quot; Since cremation was not acceptable in ancient Israel, the reference may be to burning corpses during a plague that would accompany the destruction of Samaria. They would beg him not even to mention the name of Yahweh in anger, lament, or praise, because to do so might draw His attention to them and result in their deaths. As bad as the situation was they could not bring themselves to seek the Lord for help.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. 9. 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