Albert Barnes Commentary Ezekiel 12:16

"But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations whither they come; and they shall know that I am Jehovah." — Ezekiel 12:16 (ASV)

Few - literally, as in the margin; so few, that they can easily be counted (Isaiah 10:19). The few who would escape destruction would make known to all among whom they would dwell how great had been the wickedness of the people, how just their punishment.