Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

The city

Deuteronomy 4:27
The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you.
Deuteronomy 28:62
Then you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the Lord your God.
Isaiah 1:9
Unless the Lord of hosts
Had left us a few survivors,
We would be like Sodom,
We would be like Gomorrah.
Isaiah 10:22
For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea,
Only a remnant within them will return;
A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
Ezekiel 12:16
But I will spare a few of them from the sword, the famine and the pestilence that they may tell all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the Lord.”
Romans 9:27
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that will be saved;