And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
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Gill's Exposition
And it shall come to pass,.... When the city is delivered up and taken:
if there remain; who are not carried captive, or destroyed by the sword:
ten men in one house; that is, many, a certain…
Barnes' Notes
If there shall remain ten men - He probably still denounces the punishment of the rich inhabitants of the palaces, since in these only, of old, would there be found “ten men.” They died, it seems, at…
Adam Clarke
Ten men - they shall die - All shall be cut off by the sword, or by captivity, or by famine.
In the former part of the chapter we had these secure Israelites loading themselves with pleasures, as if they could never be made merry enough; here we have God loading them with punishments, as if…
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