Ezequiel 12:16

16 dejaré que unos pocos de ellos se escapen de la guerra, del hambre y de la peste, para que en las naciones por donde vayan den cuenta de sus prácticas repugnantes. Entonces sabrán que yo soy el SEÑOR».

Ezequiel 12:16 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 12:16

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 (rpom yvna) "viros numeri", Montanus, Vatablus; "homines numero", Starckius.

Ezequiel 12:16 In-Context

14 Dispersaré a los cuatro vientos a todos los que lo rodean, tanto a sus ayudantes como a todas sus tropas, y los perseguiré espada en mano.

15 Entonces sabrán que yo soy el SEÑOR.»Cuando los haya dispersado y esparcido por las naciones,

16 dejaré que unos pocos de ellos se escapen de la guerra, del hambre y de la peste, para que en las naciones por donde vayan den cuenta de sus prácticas repugnantes. Entonces sabrán que yo soy el SEÑOR».

17 El SEÑOR me dirigió la palabra:

18 «Hijo de hombre, tiembla al comer tu pan, y llénate de espanto y miedo al beber tu agua.