Hesekiel 12:16

Schlachter Bibel

Und ich will von ihnen einige Männer übriglassen vom Schwerte, vom Hunger und von der Pest, damit sie unter den Heiden, unter welche sie kommen, alle ihre Greuel erzählen und erfahren, daß ich der Herr bin.

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
Aber ich will ihrer etliche wenige übrigbleiben lassen vor dem Schwert, dem Hunger und der Pestilenz; die sollen jener Greuel erzählen unter den Heiden, dahin sie kommen werden, und sie sollen erfahren, daß ich der HERR sei.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: Ezekiel 6:8-10, Ezekiel 14:22, Ezekiel 14:23, Isaiah 1:9, Isaiah 6:13, Isaiah 10:22, Isaiah 24:13, Jeremiah 4:27, Jeremiah 30:11, Amos 9:8, Amos 9:9, Matthew 7:14, Matthew 24:22, Romans 11:4, Romans 11:5

a few men: Heb. men of number, Genesis 13:16, Isaiah 10:19, Romans 9:27

that they: Ezekiel 14:22, Ezekiel 14:23, Ezekiel 36:31, Leviticus 26:40, Leviticus 26:41, Jeremiah 3:24, Jeremiah 3:25, Daniel 9:5-12

and they: Deuteronomy 29:24-28, 1 Kings 9:6-9, Jeremiah 22:8, Jeremiah 22:9

Reciprocal: Exodus 12:12 - I am the Lord 1 Kings 20:28 - ye shall know 2 Kings 25:11 - the rest Psalms 59:11 - Slay Jeremiah 5:10 - but make Jeremiah 21:6 - they Jeremiah 42:2 - left Ezekiel 6:9 - they shall Ezekiel 12:15 - General Amos 5:3 - The city

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But I will leave a few men of them,.... Or, "men of number" x; of a small number, such as are easily reckoned up; which will require no great skill in numbers, nor trouble to count them:

from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; during the siege of Jerusalem, and at the breaking of it up; but then they should be carried captive into other countries:

that they may declare all their abominations among the Heathen whither they come; who, observing their calamities, and distresses, would read their sin in their punishment; and conclude they must have been guilty of great enormities, who were punished in such a manner; so that their punishment was a visible and standing declaration to the Heathens of the abominable sins they had been guilty of: or else the end of reserving a few of them from the above capital judgments was, that they being brought to a sense of their sins by their afflictions, might freely confess them, express their repentance for them, and justify God in his proceedings towards them:

and they shall know that I [am] the Lord; not the Heathens, among whom this declaration would be made; but the Jews, brought under a conviction of their sin, and of the justice of God in his dealings with them.

x אנשי מספר "viros numeri", Montanus, Vatablus; "homines numero", Starckius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Few - literally, as in the margin; so few, that they can easily be counted Isaiah 10:19. The few who should escape destruction should make known to all among whom they should dwell how great had been the wickedness of the people, how just their punishment.