King James Version
Ezekiel 6:8 in the King James Version says “Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scatte...” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.”
Ezekiel 6:8 · KJV
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.
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“Yet will I leave a remnant”
H3498to jut over or exceed; by implication, to excel; (intransitively) to remain or be left; causatively to leave, cause to abound, preserve
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“the sword”
H2719drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
“among the nations”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
“when ye shall be scattered”
H2219to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow
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