Bible Cross References
few in number
Deuteronomy 4:27
The LORD will scatter you among other nations, where only a few of you will survive.
Leviticus 26:22
I will send dangerous animals among you, and they will kill your children, destroy your livestock, and leave so few of you that your roads will be deserted.
2 Kings 13:7
Jehoahaz had no armed forces left except fifty cavalry troops, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Syria had destroyed the rest, trampling them down like dust.
2 Kings 24:14
Nebuchadnezzar carried away as prisoners the people of Jerusalem, all the royal princes, and all the leading men, ten thousand in all. He also deported all the skilled workers, including the blacksmiths, leaving only the poorest of the people behind in Judah.
Nehemiah 7:4
Jerusalem was a large city, but not many people were living in it, and not many houses had been built yet.
Isaiah 1:9
If the LORD Almighty had not let some of the people survive, Jerusalem would have been totally destroyed, just as Sodom and Gomorrah were.
Isaiah 24:6
So God has pronounced a curse on the earth. Its people are paying for what they have done. Fewer and fewer remain alive.
Jeremiah 42:2
and said to me, "Please do what we ask you! Pray to the LORD our God for us. Pray for all of us who have survived. Once there were many of us; but now only a few of us are left, as you can see.
Jeremiah 52:28-30
28
This is the record of the people that Nebuchadnezzar took away as prisoners: in his seventh year as king he carried away 3,023;
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in his eighteenth year, 832 from Jerusalem;
30
and in his twenty-third year, 745---taken away by Nebuzaradan. In all, 4,600 people were taken away.
Mark 13:20
But the Lord has reduced the number of those days; if he had not, nobody would survive. For the sake of his chosen people, however, he has reduced those days.
Romans 9:27-29
27
And Isaiah exclaims about Israel: "Even if the people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand by the sea, yet only a few of them will be saved;
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for the Lord will quickly settle his full account with the world."
29
It is as Isaiah had said before, "If the Lord Almighty had not left us some descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah."
as the stars
Deuteronomy 10:22
When your ancestors went to Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
Nehemiah 9:23
You gave them as many children as there are stars in the sky, and let them conquer and live in the land that you had promised their ancestors to give them.
Romans 9:27
And Isaiah exclaims about Israel: "Even if the people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand by the sea, yet only a few of them will be saved;