Few - literally, as in the margin; so few, that they can easily be counted (Isaiah 10:19). The few who would escape destruction …

May declare all their abominations. — This they were to do, so that the false impre ion that God was unable to protect His people …

Some think that God here speaks of the faithful, whom he had determined to preserve in the very midst of death. And certainly, there is some mitiga…

But I will leave a few men of them Or, "men of number"; of a small number, such as are easily reckoned up; which will req…

By the preparation for removal, and his breaking through the wall of his house at evening, as one desiring to escape from the enemy, the prophet si…