Amos 5:3

This is what the Lord says: From a city that sends out a thousand soldiers, only a hundred will return; from a city that sends out a hundred soldiers, only ten will return.

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For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.

In Context

2Virgin Israel has fallen, and will never rise again! She lies abandoned on the ground, and there is no one to help her up.

4This is what the Lord says to the people of Israel: Look to me so you may live!

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:62You who grew as numerous as the stars in the sky will end up as only a few, because you would not obey what Lord your God told you.

Isaiah 1:9If the Lord Almighty hadn't let a few of us survive, we would have become like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 10:22Israel, even though your people are as numerous as sand on the seashore, only a remnant will return. The Lord has rightly decided to destroy his people.

Amos 6:9If there are ten people in a house, they will die.

Matthew Henry on Amos 5:2-4

Invitations and Warnings. ( b. c. 790.) 1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. 2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up. 3 For thus saith the Lord God ; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave a hundred, and that which went forth by a hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. This chapter begins, as those two next foregoing began, with, Hear this word. Where God has a mouth… Read the whole commentary →

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