Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 5:3
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Amos5:3
3 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.
This solemnly attesteth the certainty of the thing.
That sent out one thousand Souldiers as the quota they were assessed at to help against an invader.
Shall lose nine parts of Ten, so great shall the slaughter be which the prevailing Enemy shall make upon Israel, and here the Prophet useth a certain number to express an uncertain, or proverbially scarce a tenth man shall escape.
The Kingdom of the ten Tribes, and this perhaps may refer backward to Iehoa[illegible: 1 letter]az his time, 2 Kings 13. to be sure its fulfilled in the wars of Salmaneser and the taking Samaria.
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