Amos 5:3

For this is what the Lord Yahweh says: 1 “The city that went out with a thousand will have a hundred left, 1 and the one that went out with a hundred will have ten left 1 belonging to the house of Israel.” 1

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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

2The virgin Israel has fallen; 1 she will rise no more; 1 she is forsaken on her land; 1 there is no one to raise her up. 1

4For this is what Yahweh says to the house of Israel: 1 “Seek me and live! 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:62You will be left few in number, although you were like the stars of the heavens in number, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.

Isaiah 1:9If Yahweh of hosts had not left for us a small remnant, 1 we would have been like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah. 1

Isaiah 10:22For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the seashore, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, as overflowing righteousness demands. 1

Amos 6:9It will come about that if there are ten men left in one house, they will all 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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