Amos 5:3 BSB — MannaFest

Amos 5:3

This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will only see a hundred return, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, to the house of Israel.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The city that went out by a thousand - (that is, probably that sent out a thousand fighting men, as the word “went out” is often used for, “went out” to fight,) “shall have” literally, “shall retain, an hundred.” She was to be decimated. Only, the tenth alone was to be reserved alive; the nine-tenths were to be destroyed. And this, alike in larger places and in the small. The city “that went forth an hundred shall retain ten.” Smaller places escape for their obscurity, the larger from their strength and situation. One common doom was to befall all.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
כֹ֤ה	khoh	thus	H3541 →
אָמַר֙	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
אֲדֹנָ֣י	'a.do.Nai	[the] Lord	H136 →
יְהוִ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3069 →
הָעִ֛יר	ha.'Ir	the city	H5892 →
הַיֹּצֵ֥את	hai.yo.Tzet	which goes out	H3318 →
אֶ֖לֶף	'E.lef	a thousand	H505 →
תַּשְׁאִ֣יר	tash.'Ir	it will have left	H7604 →
מֵאָ֑ה	me.'Ah	a hundred	H3967 →
וְהַיּוֹצֵ֥את	ve.hai.yo.Tzet	and which goes out	H3318 →
מֵאָ֛ה	me.'Ah	a hundred	H3967 →
תַּשְׁאִ֥יר	tash.'Ir	it will have left	H7604 →
עֲשָׂרָ֖ה	'a.sa.Rah	ten	H6235 →
לְבֵ֥ית	le.Veit	of [the] house of	H1004 →
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ ס	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 9:27
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
leads to
- Romans 11:4–6
  And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 10:20–23
  On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy…
- Isaiah 1:9
  Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Isaiah 6:13
And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”
leads to
- Romans 11:5–6
  In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Job 14:7–9
  For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.
Through
Isaiah 1:9
Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
leads to
- Romans 9:29
  It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”
- Isaiah 37:31–32
  And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
Through
Isaiah 10:22
Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
leads to
- Romans 9:27–28
  Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.