Amos 5:3
Therefore thus says the Lord God; The city out of which there went forth a thousand, in it there shall be left one hundred, and in that out of which there went forth one hundred, there shall be left ten to the house of Israel.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
2The virgin of Israel has fallen upon his land; there is none that shall raise her up.
4Therefore thus says the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek you⌃ me, and you⌃ shall live.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:62And you⌃ shall be left few in number, whereas you⌃ were as the stars of the sky in multitude; because you did not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.
Isaiah 1:9+ 1:9 Rom 9:29 And if the Lord of Sabaoth had not left us a seed, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been made like Gomorrha.
Isaiah 10:22+ 10:22 Rom 9:27,28 And though the people of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be saved.
Amos 6:9And it shall come to pass, if there be ten men left in one house, that they shall 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 →