The Pulpit Commentary on Amos 6:9

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

If there remain ten men in one house. If these escape death in war, they shall die of famine and pestilence in the three years' siege of Samaria (2 Kings 17:5). If the prophet is still referring to the rich chieftains, ten would be only a poor remnant of the inhabitants of their palaces.

The LXX. adds, very unnecesarily, καὶ ὑπολειφθήσονται οἱ κατάλοιποι, "And those remaining shall be left behind."

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