Amos 6:10
And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the Lord must not be invoked.”
Note Or to make a funeral fire to honor the dead
And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the Lord.
Note we…: or, they will not, or, have not
“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention the Lord’s name.’
And when a man’s uncle shall take him up, even he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No; then shall he say, Hold thy peace; for we may not make mention of the name of Jehovah.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- that burneth
- Amos 8:3; 1 Samuel 31:12; 2 Kings 23:16; Jeremiah 16:6
- Hold
- Amos 5:13; Numbers 17:12; 2 Kings 6:33; Ezekiel 24:21
- for
- Jeremiah 44:26; Ezekiel 20:39