Yechezkel 6:8

8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the cherev among the Goyim, when ye shall be scattered among the countries.

Yechezkel 6:8 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 6:8

Yet will I leave a remnant
Not in Judea, but in Babylon, and in the countries where they should be dispersed, as follows: that ye may have [some] that shall escape the sword among the nations;
which was threatened to be drawn, and sent after them, ( Ezekiel 5:2 Ezekiel 5:12 ) ; but all should not perish by if; some should escape; for this was not the time to make a full end of them: when ye shall be scattered through the countries;
that is, of Egypt, Ammon, Moab, and Assyria; for this respects their dispersion at the time of the Babylonish captivity, and not their present dispersion.

Yechezkel 6:8 In-Context

6 In all your moshevot (dwellings) the towns shall be laid waste, and the [idolatrous] high places shall be desolate; that your mizbechot will be laid waste and made desolate, and your gillulim (idols) will be broken and cease, and your incense altars will be cut down, and your ma’asim will be abolished.

7 And the chalal (slain) shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am Hashem.

8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the cherev among the Goyim, when ye shall be scattered among the countries.

9 And they that escape of you shall remember Me among the Goyim where they shall be carried captive, how I have known [a cuckold’s] hurt by the lev hazoneh of them which turned away from Me, and by their einayot hazonot which went a-whoring after their gillulim; they shall lothe themselves for the ra’ot (evils) which they have committed in all their to’avot.

10 And they shall know that I am Hashem, and that I have not served warning el-chinnom (in vain) that I would bring hara’ah hazot upon them.