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

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

Isaiah also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

That they

Yet behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth to you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.

Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities, and for your abominations.

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary to me;

For shame hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

And they

Even all the nations shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus to this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why hath the LORD done thus to this great city?

General references

And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.

And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.