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So Josias swept away from the whole realm of Israel all detestable worship, and made the remnant that were left in Israel obey the Lord their God. Never again did they forsake the Lord, their fathers’ God, while Josias’ life lasted. (2 Chronicles 34, 33)
For a brief moment it seemed as if the Lord our God had listened to our prayers; he would leave a remnant of our race surviving, leave us a foot-hold✻ on this holy ground; some gleam of hope our God would afford us, some breath of life in our bondage. (Ezra 9, 8)
should we turn back? Should we defy thy commandments, by mating with these, the abominable? Oh, then indeed thy patience is at an end; no remnant of us is to be left surviving! (Ezra 9, 14)
Its madness tamed, Edom shall do thee honour; to thee the spared remnant of Emath shall keep holiday. (Psalms 75, 11)
Yet said he to the remnant that was left him, Up, go we to the attack, and try conclusions with the enemy! (1 Maccabees 9, 8)
Stern was the encounter, but with God’s help they won the day; and the defeated remnant of the Arabs asked Judas for quarter, promising a grant of pasture-lands, with other advantages. (2 Maccabees 12, 11)
so it was that earth had a remnant left when the flood came; (Ecclesiasticus 44, 18)
Though a tenth of their number remain, it is but empty show,✻ like leafage of terebinth or oak that needs pruning; only a remnant of it will be left, the true stock of holiness. (Isaiah 6, 13)
And when that day comes, the remnant of Israel, the survivors of Jacob’s line, will learn to trust, not in the staff that turns into rod to smite them,✻ but in the Lord, the Holy One of Israel; here he shall find loyalty. (Isaiah 10, 20)
A remnant will turn back, only a remnant of Jacob, to God, the Mighty One. (Isaiah 10, 21)
Countless though Israel be as the sea sand, only a remnant of it will return; there must be a sharp reckoning first, before we are restored, abundantly, to his favour.✻ (Isaiah 10, 22)
Then, once again, the Lord’s hand at work! From Assyria, from Egypt, Pathros and Ethiopia, from Elam and Sennaar, from Emath, from the islands out at sea, his people, a scattered remnant, shall return. (Isaiah 11, 11)
