Ezekiel 12:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

A few men

Genesis 13:16

Isaiah 10:19

Romans 9:27

That they

Daniel 9:5

And they

Deuteronomy 29:24

1 Kings 9:6

Jeremiah 22:8

General references

Leviticus 26:33

Ezekiel 6:8

Ezekiel 12:15

Bible References

A few men

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth. If anyone could count the dust, your offspring could be counted.

And the remaining trees of his forests will be so few that a child could write them down.

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: Should the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved.

That they

And yet some people will survive. Some of your sons and daughters will be brought out. When they come out to you, you will see how they live. Then you will be comforted after the disasters that I will bring on Jerusalem, after every disaster that I will bring against it.'

Then you will remember your evil ways and the bad things that you did. You will hate yourselves for all these wicked and disgusting things.

However if they confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors and the treacherous things they did to oppose me,

Ever since we were young, the shameful worship of Baal has taken everything our ancestors worked for, their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.

We have sinned. We have dealt perversely. We have acted wickedly and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.

And they

All the nations will say: Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?'

But if you turn from my ways, you or your children, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods and give them worship:

Many nations will pass by this city. They will say to one another: Why has Jehovah done thus to this great city?

General references

I will scatter you among the nations. War will follow you. Your country will be in ruins. Your cities will be deserted.

However, I will let some people live. Some people will escape the battle among the nations and be scattered throughout the countries.

So they will know that I am Jehovah when I scatter them among the nations and spread them among the countries.