Isaiah 17:6 Cross References

Isaiah 17:6

6: Only a few of its people will be left, like the stray olives left on the tree after the harvest. Only two or three remain in the highest branches, four or five out on the tips of the limbs. Yes, Israel will be stripped bare of people," says the LORD, the God of Israel.

Isaiah 24:13

  1. Throughout the earth the story is the same--like the stray olives left on the tree or the few grapes left on the vine after harvest, only a remnant is left.

Deuteronomy 4:27

  1. For the LORD will scatter you among the nations, where only a few of you will survive.

Obadiah 1:5

  1. "If thieves came at night and robbed you, they would not take everything. Those who harvest grapes always leave a few for the poor. But your enemies will wipe you out completely!

Romans 11:4

  1. And do you remember God's reply? He said, "You are not the only one left. I have seven thousand others who have never bowed down to Baal!"
  2. It is the same today, for not all the Jews have turned away from God. A few are being saved as a result of God's kindness in choosing them.
  3. And if they are saved by God's kindness, then it is not by their good works. For in that case, God's wonderful kindness would not be what it really is--free and undeserved.

Romans 9:27

  1. Concerning Israel, Isaiah the prophet cried out, "Though the people of Israel are as numerous as the sand on the seashore, only a small number will be saved.

Judges 8:2

  1. But Gideon replied, "What have I done compared to you? Aren't the last grapes of Ephraim's harvest better than the entire crop of my little clan of Abiezer?

Isaiah 10:22

  1. But though the people of Israel are as numerous as the sand on the seashore, only a few of them will return at that time. The LORD has rightly decided to destroy his people.

Isaiah 27:12

  1. Yet the time will come when the LORD will gather them together one by one like handpicked grain. He will bring them to his great threshing floor--from the Euphrates River in the east to the brook of Egypt in the west.

1 Kings 19:18

  1. Yet I will preserve seven thousand others in Israel who have never bowed to Baal or kissed him!"

Ezekiel 39:29

  1. And I will never again turn my back on them, for I will pour out my Spirit upon them, says the Sovereign LORD."

Isaiah 1:9

  1. If the LORD Almighty had not spared a few of us, we would have been wiped out as completely as Sodom and Gomorrah.

Ezekiel 36:8

  1. But the mountains of Israel will produce heavy crops of fruit to prepare for my people's return--and they will be coming home again soon!
  2. See, I am concerned for you, and I will come to help you. Your ground will be tilled and your crops planted.
  3. I will greatly increase the population of Israel, and the ruined cities will be rebuilt and filled with people.
  4. Not only the people, but your flocks and herds will also greatly multiply. O mountains of Israel, I will bring people to live on you once again. I will make you even more prosperous than you were before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
  5. I will cause my people to walk on you once again, and you will be their inheritance. You will never again devour their children.

Ezekiel 37:19

  1. say to them, `This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take the northern tribes and join them to Judah. I will make them one stick in my hand.'
  2. Then hold out the sticks you have inscribed, so the people can see them.
  3. And give them this message from the Sovereign LORD: I will gather the people of Israel from among the nations. I will bring them home to their own land from the places where they have been scattered.
  4. I will unify them into one nation in the land. One king will rule them all; no longer will they be divided into two nations.
  5. They will stop polluting themselves with their detestable idols and other sins, for I will save them from their sinful backsliding. I will cleanse them. Then they will truly be my people, and I will be their God.

Romans 11:26

  1. And so all Israel will be saved. Do you remember what the prophets said about this? "A Deliverer will come from Jerusalem, and he will turn Israel from all ungodliness.

Micah 7:1

  1. What misery is mine! I feel like the fruit picker after the harvest who can find nothing to eat. Not a cluster of grapes or a single fig can be found to satisfy my hunger.
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