Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Amos 5:3
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Amos5:3
3. went out by a thousand--that is, "the city from which there used to go out a thousand" equipped for war. "City" is put for "the inhabitants of the city," as in Am 4:8.
shall leave ... hundred--shall have only a hundred left, the rest being destroyed by sword and pestilence (De 28:62).
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