16 Bible Verses about Small Remnants

Jehovah was very angry with Israel. He removed them from his sight. Only the tribe of Judah kept its place.

Nebuchadnezzar carried away as prisoners the people of Jerusalem, all the royal princes, and all the leading men, ten thousand in all. He also deported all the skilled workers, including the blacksmiths, leaving only the poorest of the people behind in Judah.

He let the poorest of the land go on living there, to take care of the vines and the fields.

He left in the land of Judah some of the poorest people, who owned no property, and he gave them vineyards and fields.

All the army commanders and their men who were in the field heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, to govern the country and some of the country's poorest men, women, and children who had not been taken away to Babylon.

Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, left some of the poorest people in the land to work in the vineyards and on the farms.

I will make the lame a remnant and the outcast far off a strong nation. Jehovah will reign over them in mount Zion from now on and forever.

Return, you disobedient people, proclaims Jehovah. I am your husband. I will take you, one from every city and two from every family, and bring you to Zion.'

The (Sovereign and Almighty) Lord Jehovah declared: The city that went forth a thousand will have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred will have ten left, for the house of Israel.

If Jehovah of Hosts had not left us a few survivors, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Just as Isaiah said earlier: Unless Jehovah of Hosts had left a seed to us, we should have become like Sodom, and Gomorrah. (Isaiah 1:9)

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 Jehovah.

Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten: two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, declares Jehovah the God of Israel.

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.

Take also a few strands of hair from them and bind them in the edges of your robes. Take again some of them and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire. Fire will spread from there to all the house of Israel.

It will happen in all the land, said Jehovah, two parts will be cut off and die; but the third will be left.