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"Come closer to me," he told his
brothers. When they had done so, he said: "I am your brother
Joseph, whom you once sold into Egypt. But now do not be
distressed, and do not reproach yourselves for having sold me
here. It was really for the sake of saving lives that God sent me
here ahead of you. For two years now the famine has been in the
land, and for five more years tillage will yield no harvest. God,
therefore, sent me on ahead of you to ensure for you a remnant on
earth and to save your lives in an extraordinary deliverance. So
it was not really you but God who had me come here; and he has
made of me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his household, and
ruler over the whole land of Egypt." [Taken from GEN 45:4-8]
Take great care, however, to love the LORD, your
God. For if you ever abandon him and ally yourselves with the
remnant of these nations while they survive among you, by
intermarrying and intermingling with them, know for certain that
the LORD, your God, will no longer drive these nations out of your
way. [Taken from JOSH 23:11-13]
"Thus says Hezekiah: 'This is a day of
distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace. Children are at the point of
birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth. Perhaps the
LORD, your God, will hear all the words of the commander, whom his
master, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God, and
will rebuke him for the words which the LORD, your God, has heard.
So send up a prayer for the remnant that is here.'" [2KGS 19:3-4]
'This shall be a sign for you: this year
you shall eat the aftergrowth, next year, what grows of itself;
But in the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their
fruit! The remaining survivors of the house of Judah shall again
strike root below and bear fruit above. For out of Jerusalem shall
come a remnant, and from Mount Zion, survivors. The zeal of the
LORD of hosts shall do this.' [2KGS 19:29-31]
Accordingly the couriers, with the letters
written by the king and his princes, traversed all Israel and
Judah, and at the king's command they said: "Israelites,
return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that he
may return to you, the remnant left from the hands of the Assyrian
kings. Be not like your fathers and your brethren who proved
faithless to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that he
delivered them over to desolation, as you yourselves now see. Be
not obstinate, as your fathers were; extend your hands to the LORD
and come to his sanctuary that he has consecrated forever, and
serve the LORD, your God, that he may turn away his burning anger
from you. For when you return to the LORD, your brethren and your
children will find mercy with their captors and return to this
land; for merciful and compassionate is the LORD, your God, and he
will not turn away his face from you if you return to him." [2CHRON
30:6-9]
In the eighteenth year of his reign, in order to
cleanse the temple as well as the land, he sent Shaphan, son of
Azaliah, Maaseiah, the ruler of the city, and Joah, son of Joahaz,
the chamberlain, to restore the house of the LORD, his God. They
came to Hilkiah the high priest and turned over the money brought
to the house of God which the Levites, the guardians of the
threshold, had collected from Manasseh, Ephraim, and all the
remnant of Israel, as well as from all of Judah, Benjamin, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem. They turned it over to the master
workmen in the house of the LORD, and these in turn used it to pay
the workmen in the LORD'S house who were restoring and repairing
the temple. [Taken from 2CHRON 34:8-10]
"And now, but a short time ago, mercy came
to us from the LORD, our God, who left us a remnant and gave us a
stake in his holy place; thus our God has brightened our eyes and
given us relief in our servitude. For slaves we are, but in our
servitude our God has not abandoned us; rather, he has turned the
good will of the kings of Persia toward us. Thus he has given us
new life to raise again the house of our God and restore its
ruins, and has granted us a fence in Judah and Jerusalem." [Taken
from EZRA
9:8-9]
"After all that has come upon us for our
evil deeds and our great guilt - though you, our God, have made less
of our sinfulness than it deserved and have allowed us to survive
as we do - shall we again violate your commandments by
intermarrying with these abominable peoples? Would you not become
so angered with us as to destroy us without remnant or survivor? O
LORD, God of Israel, you are just; yet we have been spared, the
remnant we are today. Here we are before you in our sins. Because
of all this, we can no longer stand in your presence." [Taken
from EZRA 9:13-15]
In
the month Chislev of the twentieth year, I was in the citadel of
Susa when Hanani, one of my brothers, came with other men from
Judah. I asked them about the Jews, the remnant preserved after
the captivity, and about Jerusalem, and they answered me:
"The survivors of the captivity there in the province are in
great distress and under reproach. Also, the wall of Jerusalem
lies breached, and its gates have been gutted with fire."
When I heard this report, I began to weep and continued mourning
for several days; I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven. [Taken
from NEH
1:1-4]
My spirit blesses the Lord, the great King;
Jerusalem shall be rebuilt as his home forever. Happy for me if a
remnant of my offspring survive to see your glory and to praise
the King of heaven! The gates of Jerusalem shall be built with
sapphire and emerald, and all your walls with precious stones. The
towers of Jerusalem shall be built with gold, and their
battlements with pure gold. The streets of Jerusalem shall be
paved with rubies and stones of Ophir; The gates of Jerusalem
shall sing hymns of gladness, and all her houses shall cry out,
"Alleluia! Blessed be God who has raised you up! may he
be blessed for all ages!" For in you they shall praise his
holy name forever. [Taken from TOBIT 13:15-18]
He left Lysias, a nobleman of royal blood, in
charge of the king's affairs from the Euphrates River to the
frontier of Egypt, and commissioned him to take care of his son
Antiochus until his own return. He entrusted to him half of the
army, and the elephants, and gave him instructions concerning
everything he wanted done. As for the inhabitants of Judea and
Jerusalem, Lysias was to send an army against them to crush and
destroy the power of Israel and the remnant of Jerusalem and
efface their memory from the land. He was to settle foreigners in
all their territory and distribute their land by lot. The king
took the remaining half of the army and set out from Antioch, his
capital, in the year one hundred and forty-seven; he crossed the
Euphrates River and advanced inland. [1MACC 3:32-37]
From the heavens you pronounced sentence; the
earth was terrified and reduced to silence, When you arose, O God,
for judgment to deliver the afflicted of the land. Even wrathful
Edom praises you; the remnant of Hamath keeps your feast. [Taken
from PS 76:9-11]
But God does not withdraw his mercy, nor permit
even one of his promises to fail. He does not uproot the posterity
of his chosen one, nor destroy the offspring of his friend. So he
gave to Jacob a remnant, to David a root from his own family. [SIRACH 47:22]
Unless the LORD of hosts had left us a scanty
remnant, we had become as Sodom, we should be like Gomorrah. [ISA
1:9]
And the remnant of the trees in his forest will
be so few, Like poles set up for signals, that any boy can record
them. On that day the remnant of Israel, the survivors of the
house of Jacob, will no more lean upon him who struck them; But
they lean upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. A
remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. For
though your people, O Israel, were like the sand of the sea, only
a remnant of them will return; their destruction is decreed as
overwhelming justice demands. [Taken from ISA 10:19-22]
On that day, the root of Jesse, set up as a
signal for the nations, the Gentiles shall seek out, for his
dwelling shall be glorious. On that day, the Lord shall again take
it in hand to reclaim the remnant of his people that is left from
Assyria and Egypt, Pathros, Ethiopia, and Elam, Shinar, Hamath,
and the isles of the sea. He shall raise a signal to the nations
and gather the outcasts of Israel; The dispersed of Judah he shall
assemble from the four corners of the earth. [ISA 11:10-12]
There shall be a highway for the remnant of his
people that is left from Assyria, as there was for Israel when he
came up from the land of Egypt. [ISA 11:16]
I will rise up against them, says the LORD of
hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, progeny and
offspring, says the LORD. I will make it a haunt of hoot owls and
a marshland; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says
the LORD of hosts. [ISA 14:22-23]
In the year that King Ahaz died, there came this
oracle: Rejoice not, O Philistia, not a man of you, that the rod
which smote you is broken; For out of the serpent's root shall
come an adder, its fruit shall be a flying saraph. In my pastures
the poor shall eat, and the needy lie down in safety; But I will
kill your root with famine that shall slay even your remnant.
Howl, O gate; cry out, O city! Philistia, all of you melts away!
For there comes a smoke from the north, without a straggler in the
ranks. What will one answer the messengers of the nation?
"The LORD has established Zion, and in her the afflicted of
his people find refuge." [ISA 14:28-32]
But now the LORD has spoken: In three years,
like those of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be degraded
despite all its great multitude; there shall be a remnant, very
small and weak. [ISA 16:14]
Lo, Damascus shall cease to be a city and become
a ruin; Her cities shall be forever abandoned, given over to
flocks to lie in undisturbed. The fortress shall be lost to
Ephraim and the kingdom to Damascus; The remnant of Aram shall
have the same glory as the Israelites, says the LORD of hosts. On
that day The glory of Jacob shall fade, and his full body grow
thin, Like the reaper's mere armful of stalks when he gathers the
standing grain; Or as when one gleans the ears in the Valley of
Rephaim. Only a scattering of grapes shall be left! As when an
olive tree has been beaten, two or three olives remain at the very
top, four or five on its fruitful branches, says the LORD, the God
of Israel. On that day man shall look to his maker, his eyes
turned toward the Holy One of Israel. He shall not look to the
altars, his handiwork, nor shall he regard what his fingers have
made: the sacred poles or the incense stands. On that day his
strong cities shall be like those abandoned by the Hivites and
Amorites When faced with the children of Israel: they shall be
laid waste. For you have forgotten God, your savior, and
remembered not the Rock, your strength. Therefore, though you
plant your pagan plants and set out your foreign vine slips, though you make them grow the day you plant them and make your
sprouts blossom on the next morning, The harvest shall disappear
on the day of the grievous blow, the incurable blight. [Taken from
ISA 17:1-11]
Woe to the majestic garland of the drunkard
Ephraim, to the fading blooms of his glorious beauty, on the head
of him who is stupefied with wine. Behold, the LORD has a strong
one and a mighty, who, like a downpour of hail, a destructive
storm, like a flood of water, great and overflowing, levels to the
ground with violence; With feet that will trample the majestic
garland of the drunkard Ephraim. The fading blooms of his glorious
beauty on the head of the fertile valley Will be like an early fig
before summer: when a man sees it, he picks and swallows it at
once. On that day the LORD of hosts will be a glorious crown and a
brilliant diadem to the remnant of his people, a spirit of justice
to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back
the battle at the gate. [ISA 28:1-6]
"Thus says Hezekiah: 'This is a day of
distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace. Children are at the point of
birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth. Perhaps the
LORD, your God, will hear the words of the commander, whom his
master, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God, and
will rebuke him for the words which the LORD, your God, has heard.
Send up a prayer for the remnant that is here.'" [ISA 37:3-4]
For out of Jerusalem shall come a remnant, and
from Mount Zion, survivors. The zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do
this. [ISA 37:32]
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Glean, glean like a
vine the remnant of Israel; Pass your hand, like a vintager,
repeatedly over the tendrils. To whom shall I speak? whom shall I
warn, and be heard? See! their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot
give heed; See, the word of the LORD has become for them an object
of scorn, which they will not have. Therefore my wrath brims up
within me, I am weary of holding it in; I will pour it out upon
the child in the street, upon the young men gathered together.
Yes, all will be taken, husband and wife, graybeard with ancient.
Their houses will fall to strangers, their fields and their wives
as well; For I will stretch forth my hand against those who dwell
in this land, says the LORD. [JER 6:9-12]
Woe to the shepherds who mislead and scatter the
flock of my pasture, says the LORD. Therefore, thus says the LORD,
the God of Israel, against the shepherds who shepherd my people:
You have scattered my sheep and driven them away. You have not
cared for them, but I will take care to punish your evil deeds. I
myself will gather the remnant of my flock from all the lands to
which I have driven them and bring them back to their meadow;
there they shall increase and multiply. I will appoint shepherds
for them who will shepherd them so that they need no longer fear
and tremble; and none shall be missing, says the LORD. [JER 23:1-4]
And like the figs that are bad, so bad they
cannot be eaten - yes, thus says the LORD - even so will I treat
Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his princes, the remnant of Jerusalem
remaining in this land and those who have settled in the land of
Egypt. I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of
the earth, a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all
the places to which I will drive them. I will send upon them the
sword, famine, and pestilence, until they have disappeared from
the land which I gave them and their fathers. [JER 24:8-10]
For thus said the LORD, the God of Israel, to
me: Take this cup of foaming wine from my hand, and have all the
nations to whom I will send you drink it. They shall drink, and be
convulsed, and go mad, because of the sword I will send among
them. I took the cup from the hand of the LORD and gave drink to
all the nations to which the LORD sent me: (Jerusalem, the cities
of Judah, her kings and her princes, to make them a ruin and a
desert, an object of ridicule and cursing, as they are today;)
Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his servants, his princes, all the
people under him, native and foreign; all the kings of the land of
Uz; all the kings of the land of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza,
Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;
all the kings of Tyre, of Sidon, and of the shores beyond the sea;
Dedan and Tema and Buz, all the desert dwellers who shave their
temples; (all the kings of Arabia;) all the kings of Zimri, of
Elam, of the Medes; all the kings of the north, near and far, one
after the other; all the kingdoms upon the face of the earth (and
after them the king of Sheshach shall drink). Tell them: Thus says
the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink! become drunk and
vomit; fall, never to rise, before the sword that I will send
among you! If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and
drink, say to them: Thus says the LORD of hosts: You must drink!
For since with this city, which is called by my name, I begin to
inflict evil, how can you possibly be spared? You shall not be
spared! I will call down the sword upon all who inhabit the earth,
says the LORD of hosts. [Taken from JER 25:15-29]
For thus says the LORD: Shout with joy for
Jacob, exult at the head of the nations; proclaim your praise and
say: The LORD has delivered his people, the remnant of Israel.
Behold, I will bring them back from the land of the north; I will
gather them from the ends of the world, with the blind and the
lame in their midst, The mothers and those with child; they shall
return as an immense throng. They departed in tears, but I will
console them and guide them; I will lead them to brooks of water,
on a level road, so that none shall stumble. For I am a father to
Israel, Ephraim is my first-born. [JER 31:7-9]
When the people of Judah in Moab, those among
the Ammonites, those in Edom, and those in all other lands heard
that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah, and had
appointed over them Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, they
all returned to the land of Judah from the places to which they
had scattered. They went to Gedaliah at Mizpah and had a rich
harvest of wine and fruit. [JER 40:11-12]
Now Johanan, son of Kareah, and all the leaders
of the armies in the field came to Gedaliah in Mizpah and asked
him whether he did not know that Baalis, the king of the
Ammonites, had sent Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, to assassinate him.
But Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, would not believe them. Then Johanan,
son of Kareah, said secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah: "Let me
go and kill Ishmael, son of Nethaniah; no one will know it. Why
should he be allowed to kill you? All the Jews who have now
rallied to you will be dispersed and the remnant of Judah will
perish." Nevertheless, Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, answered
Johanan, son of Kareah, "You shall do nothing of the kind;
you have lied about Ishmael." [JER 40:13-16]
Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, led away the remnant
of the people left in Mizpah and the princesses, whom Nebuzaradan,
captain of the bodyguard, had confided to Gedaliah, son of Ahikam.
With these captives, Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, set out to make
his way to the Ammonites. But when Johanan, son of Kareah, and the other
army leaders with him heard of the crimes Ishmael, son of
Nethaniah, had committed, they took all their men and set out to
attack Ishmael, son of Nethaniah. They overtook him at the Great
Waters in Gibeon. At the sight of Johanan, son of Kareah, and the
other army leaders, the people who were Ishmael's captives
rejoiced. All of those whom Ishmael had brought away from Mizpah
went over to Johanan, son of Kareah. But Ishmael, son of Nethaniah,
escaped from Johanan and fled to the Ammonites with eight men.
Then Johanan, son of Kareah, and all his army leaders took charge
of the remnant of the people, both the soldiers and the women and
children with their guardians, whom Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, had
brought away from Mizpah after he killed Gedaliah, son of Ahikim.
From Gibeon, they retreated to the lodging place of Chimham near
Bethlehem, where they stopped, intending to flee into Egypt. They
were afraid of the Chaldeans, because Ishmael, son of Nethaniah,
had slain Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had
made ruler in the land of Judah. [JER 41:10-18]
Then all the army leaders, Johanan, son of
Kareah, Azariah, son of Hoshaiah, and all the people, high and
low, approached the prophet Jeremiah and said, "Grant our
petition; pray for us to the LORD, your God, for all this remnant.
We are now few who once were many, as you well see. Let the LORD,
your God, show us what way we should take and what we should
do." Very well! the prophet Jeremiah answered them: I will
pray to the LORD, your God, as you desire; whatever the LORD
answers you, I will tell you; I will withhold nothing from you. [JER
42:1-4]
Ten days passed before the word of the LORD came
to Jeremiah. Then he called Johanan, son of Kareah, his army
leaders, and all the people, high and low, and said to them: Thus
says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to offer
your prayer: If you remain quietly in this land I will build you
up, and not tear you down; I will plant you, not uproot you; for I
regret the evil I have done you. Do not fear the king of Babylon,
before whom you are now afraid; do not fear him, says the LORD,
for I am with you to save you, to rescue you from his power. I
will grant you mercy, so that he will be sorry for you and let you
return to your land. But if you disobey the voice of the LORD,
your God, and decide not to remain in this land, saying, "No,
we will go to Egypt, where we will see no more of war, hear the
trumpet alarm no longer, nor hunger for bread; there we will
live"; then listen to the word of the LORD, remnant of Judah:
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: If you are
determined to go to Egypt, when you arrive there to stay, the
sword you fear shall reach you in the land of Egypt; the hunger
you dread shall cling to you no less in Egypt, and there you shall
die. All those men who determine to go to Egypt to stay, shall die
by the sword, famine, and pestilence; not one shall survive or
escape the evil that I will bring upon them. For thus says the
LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Just as my furious anger was
poured out upon the citizens of Jerusalem, so shall my anger be
poured out on you when you reach Egypt. You shall become an
example of malediction and horror, a curse and a reproach, and you
shall never see this place again. It is the LORD who has spoken to
you, remnant of Judah; do not go to Egypt! You can never say that
I did not warn you this day. At the cost of your lives you have
deceived me, sending me to the LORD, your God, saying, "Pray
for us to the LORD, our God; make known to us all that the LORD,
our God, shall say, and we will do it." Today I proclaim his
message, but you obey the voice of the LORD, your God, in nothing
that he has commissioned me to make known to you. Have no doubt of
this, you shall die by the sword, famine, and pestilence in the
place where you wish to go and settle. [JER 42:7-22]
Johanan, son of Kareah, and the rest of the
leaders and the people did not obey the LORD'S command to stay in
the land of Judah. Instead, Johanan, son of Kareah, and all the
army leaders took along the whole remnant of Judah that had been
dispersed among the nations and had returned thence to dwell again
in the land of Judah: men, women, and children, the princesses and
everyone whom Nebuzaradan, captain of the bodyguard, had entrusted
to Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan; also Jeremiah, the
prophet, and Baruch, son of Neriah. Against the LORD'S command
they went to Egypt, and arrived at Tahpanhes [Taken from JER 43:4-7]
Now thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of
Israel: Why do you inflict so great an evil upon yourselves? Will
you root out from Judah man and wife, child and nursling, and not
leave yourselves even a remnant? [JER 44:7]
Hence, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have
determined evil against you; and I will uproot all Judah. I will
take away the remnant of Judah who insisted on coming to dwell in
Egypt, so that they shall be wholly destroyed. In the land of
Egypt they shall fall by the sword or be consumed by hunger. High
and low, they shall die by the sword, or by hunger, and become an
example of malediction, a horror, a curse and a reproach. Thus
will I punish those who live in Egypt, just as I punished
Jerusalem with sword, hunger, and pestilence. None of the remnant
of Judah that have come to settle in the land of Egypt shall
escape or survive. None shall return to the land of Judah, though
they yearn to return and live there. Only scattered refugees shall return.
[JER 44:11-14]
Jeremiah said further to all the people,
including the women: Hear the word of the LORD, all you Judeans in
the land of Egypt: Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
You and your wives have stated your intentions, and kept them in
fact: "We will continue to fulfill the vows we have made to
burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out libations to
her." Very well! keep your vows, carry out your resolutions!
But listen then to the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah
who live in Egypt; I swear by my own great name, says the LORD, in
the whole land of Egypt no man of Judah shall henceforth pronounce
my name, saying, "As the Lord GOD lives." I am watching
over them to do evil, not good. All the men of Judah in Egypt
shall perish by the sword or famine until they are utterly
destroyed. Those who escape the sword to return from the land of
Egypt to the land of Judah shall be few in number. The whole
remnant of Judah who came to settle in Egypt shall know whose word
stands, mine or theirs. That you may know how surely my threats of
punishment for you shall be fulfilled, this shall be a sign to
you, says the LORD, that I will punish you in this place. Thus
says the LORD: See! I will hand over Pharaoh Hophra, king of
Egypt, to his enemies, to those who seek his life, just as I
handed over Zedekiah, king of Judah, to his enemy and mortal foe,
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. [JER 44:24-30]
They hear the stamping hooves of his steeds, the
rattling chariots, the rumbling wheels. Fathers turn not to save
their children; their hands fall helpless because of the day which
has come to ruin all the Philistines, and cut off from Tyre and
Sidon the last of their allies. Yes, the LORD is destroying the
Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor. [Taken from
JER 47:3-4]
Gaza is shaved bald, Ashkelon is reduced to
silence; Ashdod, the remnant of their strength, how long will you
gash yourself? [JER 47:5]
In those days, at that time, says the LORD: They
shall seek Israel's guilt, but it shall be no more, and Judah's
sins, but these shall no longer be found; for I will forgive the
remnant I preserve. [JER 50:20]
The LORD opens his armory and brings forth the weapons of his wrath;
For the Lord GOD of hosts has work to do in the land of the Chaldeans. Come upon her from every side, open her granaries,
pile up her goods in heaps and doom it, leave not a remnant. [JER
50:25-26]
Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the Philistines
have acted revengefully, and have taken vengeance with destructive
malice in their hearts, with an undying enmity, therefore thus
says the Lord GOD: See! I am stretching out my hand against the
Philistines; I will cut off the Cherethites and wipe out the
remnant on the seacoast. I will execute great acts of vengeance on
them, punishing them furiously. Thus they shall know that I am the
LORD, when I wreak my vengeance on them. [EZEK 25:15-17]
Then afterward I will pour out my spirit upon
all mankind. Your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your old men
shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions; Even upon
the servants and the handmaids, in those days, I will pour out my
spirit. And I will work wonders in the heavens and on the earth,
blood, fire, and columns of smoke; The sun will be turned to
darkness, and the moon to blood, at the coming of the Day of the
LORD, the great and terrible day. Then everyone shall be rescued
who calls on the name of the LORD; For on Mount Zion there shall
be a remnant, as the LORD has said, and in Jerusalem survivors
whom the LORD shall call. [JOEL 3:1-5]
Yes, I know how many are your crimes, how
grievous your sins: Oppressing the just, accepting bribes,
repelling the needy at the gate! Therefore the prudent man is
silent at this time, for it is an evil time. Seek good and not
evil, that you may live; Then truly will the LORD, the God of
hosts, be with you as you claim! Hate evil and love good, and let
justice prevail at the gate; Then it may be that the LORD, the God
of hosts, will have pity on the remnant of Joseph. [Taken from
AMOS 5:12-15]
I will gather you, O Jacob, each and every one,
I will assemble all the remnant of Israel; I will group them like
a flock in the fold, like a herd in the midst of its corral; they
shall not be thrown into panic by men. With a leader to break the
path they shall burst open the gate and go out through it; Their
king shall go through before them, and the LORD at their head. [MICAH
2:12-13]
On that day, says the LORD, I will gather the
lame, And I will assemble the outcasts, and those whom I have
afflicted. I will make of the lame a remnant, and of those driven
far off a strong nation; And the LORD shall be king over them on
Mount Zion, from now on forever. [MICAH 4:6-7]
The remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of
many peoples, like dew coming from the LORD, like raindrops on the
grass, which wait for no man, nor tarry for the sons of men.
[MICAH 5:6]
Who is there like you, the God who removes guilt
and pardons sin for the remnant of his inheritance; Who does not
persist in anger forever, but delights rather in clemency, and
will again have compassion on us, treading underfoot our guilt?
You will cast into the depths of the sea all our sins; You will
show faithfulness to Jacob, and grace to Abraham, as you have
sworn to our fathers from days of old. [MICAH 7:18-20]
The coast shall belong to the remnant of the
house of Judah; by the sea they shall pasture. In the houses of
Ashkelon at evening they shall couch their flocks, for the LORD
their God shall visit them, and bring about their restoration. [ZEPH
2:7]
Therefore, as I live, says the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom, the land of Ammon
like Gomorrah: A field of nettles and a salt pit and a waste
forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, the
survivors of my nation dispossess them. Such shall be the requital
of their pride, because they reviled and boasted against the
people of the LORD of hosts. [ZEPH 2:9-10]
On that day you need not be ashamed of all your
deeds, your rebellious actions against me; For then will I remove
from your midst the proud braggarts, And you shall no longer exalt
yourself on my holy mountain. But I will leave as a remnant in
your midst a people humble and lowly, who shall take refuge in the
name of the LORD; the remnant of Israel. They shall do no wrong
and speak no lies; Nor shall there be found in their mouths a
deceitful tongue; They shall pasture and couch their flocks with
none to disturb them. Shout for joy, O daughter Zion! sing
joyfully, O Israel! Be glad and exult with all your heart, O
daughter Jerusalem! The LORD has removed the judgment against you,
he has turned away your enemies; The King of Israel, the LORD, is
in your midst, you have no further misfortune to fear. On that
day, it shall be said to Jerusalem: Fear not, O Zion, be not
discouraged! The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a mighty
savior; He will rejoice over you with gladness, and renew you in
his love, He will sing joyfully because of you, as one sings at
festivals. I will remove disaster from among you, so that none may
recount your disgrace. Yes, at that time I will deal with all who
oppress you; I will save the lame, and assemble the outcasts; I
will give them praise and renown in all the earth, when I bring
about their restoration. At that time I will bring you home, and
at that time I will gather you; For I will give you renown and
praise, among all the peoples of the earth, When I bring about
your restoration before your very eyes, says the LORD. [ZEPH 3:11-20]
Then Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, and the high
priest Joshua, son of Jehozadak, and all the remnant of the people
listened to the voice of the LORD, their God, and to the words of
the prophet Haggai, because the LORD, their God, had sent him, and
the people feared because of the LORD. And the LORD'S messenger,
Haggai, proclaimed to the people as the message of the LORD: I am
with you, says the LORD. Then the LORD stirred up the spirit of
the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, and the
spirit of the high priest Joshua, son of Jehozadak, and the spirit
of all the remnant of the people, so that they came and set to
work on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God, on the
twenty-fourth day of the sixth month. [HAG 1:12-15]
The word of the LORD came through the prophet
Haggai: Tell this to the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel, son of
Shealtiel, and to the high priest Joshua, son of Jehozadak, and to
the remnant of the people: Who is left among you that saw this
house in its former glory? And how do you see it now? Does it not
seem like nothing in your eyes? But now take courage, Zerubbabel,
says the LORD, and take courage, Joshua, high priest, son of
Jehozadak, and take courage, all you people of the land, says the
LORD, and work! For I am with you, says the LORD of hosts. This is
the pact that I made with you when you came out of Egypt, and my
spirit continues in your midst; do not fear! For thus says the
LORD of hosts: One moment yet, a little while, and I will shake
the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. I will shake
all the nations, and the treasures of all the nations will come
in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.
Mine is the silver and mine the gold, says the LORD of hosts.
Greater will be the future glory of this house than the former,
says the LORD of hosts; And in this place I will give you peace,
says the LORD of hosts. [Taken from HAG 2:1-9]
This word of the LORD of hosts came: Thus says
the LORD of hosts: I am intensely jealous for Zion, stirred to
jealous wrath for her. Thus says the LORD: I will return to Zion,
and I will dwell within Jerusalem; Jerusalem shall be called the
faithful city, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy
mountain. Thus says the LORD of hosts: Old men and old women, each
with staff in hand because of old age, shall again sit in the
streets of Jerusalem. The city shall be filled with boys and girls
playing in her streets. Thus says the LORD of hosts: Even if this
should seem impossible in the eyes of the remnant of this people,
shall it in those days be impossible in my eyes also, says the
LORD of hosts? Thus says the LORD of hosts: Lo, I will rescue my
people from the land of the rising sun, and from the land of the
setting sun. I will bring them back to dwell within Jerusalem.
They shall be my people, and I will be their God, with
faithfulness and justice. Thus says the LORD of hosts: Let your
hands be strong, you who in these days hear these words spoken by
the prophets on the day when the foundation of the house of the
LORD of hosts was laid for the building of the temple. For before
those days there were no wages for men, or hire for beasts; those
who came and went had no security from the enemy, for I set every
man against his neighbor. But now I will not deal with the remnant
of this people as in former days, says the LORD of hosts, for it
is the seedtime of peace: the vine shall yield its fruit, the land
shall bear its crops, and the heavens shall give their dew; all
these things I will have the remnant of the people possess. Just
as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house
of Israel, so will I save you that you may be a blessing; do not
fear, but let your hands be strong. Thus says the LORD of hosts: As I determined to harm you when your fathers provoked me to
wrath, says the LORD of hosts, and I did not relent, so again in
these days I have determined to favor Jerusalem and the house of
Judah; do not fear! These then are the things you should do: Speak
the truth to one another; let there be honesty and peace in the
judgments at your gates, and let none of you plot evil against
another in his heart, nor love a false oath. For all these things
I hate, says the LORD. [ZECH 8:1-17]
He also shall become a
remnant for our God, and shall be like a family in Judah, and
Ekron shall be like the Jebusites. [Taken from ZECH 9:7]
So it depends not upon a person's will or
exertion, but upon God, who shows mercy. For the scripture says to
Pharaoh, "This is why I have raised you up, to show my power
through you that my name may be proclaimed throughout the
earth." Consequently, he has mercy upon whom he wills, and he
hardens whom he wills. You will say to me then, "Why (then)
does he still find fault? For who can oppose his will?" But
who indeed are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Will what
is made say to its maker, "Why have you created me so?"
Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make out of
the same lump one vessel for a noble purpose and another for an
ignoble one? What if God, wishing to show his wrath and make known
his power, has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath
made for destruction? This was to make known the riches of his
glory to the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared previously
for glory, namely, us whom he has called, not only from the Jews
but also from the Gentiles. As indeed he says in Hosea:
"Those who were not my people I will call 'my people,' and
her who was not beloved I will call 'beloved.' And in the very
place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there
they shall be called children of the living God." And Isaiah
cries out concerning Israel, "Though the number of the
Israelites were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will be
saved; for decisively and quickly will the Lord execute sentence
upon the earth." And as Isaiah predicted: "Unless the
Lord of hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like
Sodom and have been made like Gomorrah." What then shall we
say? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have
achieved it, that is, righteousness that comes from faith; but
that Israel, who pursued the law of righteousness, did not attain
to that law? Why not? Because they did it not by faith, but as if
it could be done by works. They stumbled over the stone that
causes stumbling, as it is written: "Behold, I am laying a
stone in Zion that will make people stumble and a rock that will
make them fall, and whoever believes in him shall not be put to
shame." [Taken from ROM 9:16-33]
I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Of
course not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of
the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he
foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah,
how he pleads with God against Israel? "Lord, they have
killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone
am left, and they are seeking my life." But what is God's
response to him? "I have left for myself seven thousand men
who have not knelt to Baal." So also at the present time
there is a remnant, chosen by grace. But if by grace, it is no
longer because of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
[Taken from ROM 11:1-6]
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/ honor to God [R8]
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