Ezekiel 12:16
But I will spare a few of them from the sword, famine, and plague, so that they can tell of all their abominations among the nations to which they go. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
Cross References
Jeremiah 22:8
And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?'

Jeremiah 22:9
Then people will reply, 'Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.'

Ezekiel 7:15
The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.

Ezekiel 12:15
And they will know that I am the LORD when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.

Ezekiel 12:17
Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 14:21
For this is what the Lord GOD says: 'How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments--sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague--in order to cut off from it both man and beast?

Ezekiel 14:22
Yet, behold, some survivors will be left in it--sons and daughters who will be brought out. They will come out to you, and when you see their conduct and actions, you will be consoled regarding the disaster I have brought upon Jerusalem--everything that I have brought upon it.

Ezekiel 36:20
And wherever they went among the nations they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them 'These are the people of the LORD, yet they had to leave His land.'

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I will

Ezekiel 6:8-10
Yet I will leave a remnant. For some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands. . . .

Ezekiel 14:22, 23
Yet, behold, some survivors will be left in it--sons and daughters who will be brought out. They will come out to you, and when you see their conduct and actions, you will be consoled regarding the disaster I have brought upon Jerusalem--everything that I have brought upon it. . . .

Isaiah 1:9
Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.

Isaiah 6:13
And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land."

Isaiah 10:22
Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

Isaiah 24:13
So will it be on the earth and among the nations: like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.

Jeremiah 4:27
For this is what the LORD says: "The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.

Jeremiah 30:11
For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you; yet I will correct you in measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."

Amos 9:8, 9
Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, " declares the LORD. . . .

Matthew 7:14
But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Matthew 24:22
If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.

Romans 11:4, 5
And what was the divine reply to him? "I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal." . . .

a few men [heb] men of number

Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

Isaiah 10:19
The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.

Romans 9:27
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

that they

Ezekiel 14:22, 23
Yet, behold, some survivors will be left in it--sons and daughters who will be brought out. They will come out to you, and when you see their conduct and actions, you will be consoled regarding the disaster I have brought upon Jerusalem--everything that I have brought upon it. . . .

Ezekiel 36:31
Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominations.

Leviticus 26:40, 41
But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me-- . . .

Jeremiah 3:24, 25
From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for--their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters. . . .

Daniel 9:5-12
we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances. . . .

and they

Deuteronomy 29:24-28
All the nations will ask, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?' . . .

1 Kings 9:6-9
But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods, . . .

Jeremiah 22:8, 9
And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?' . . .

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