Dictionary of Bible Themes: 7145 remnant

7145 remnant

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A small group of people who remain faithful to God, despite widespread unbelief or faithlessness around them. God preserves a remnant in order to ensure a renewed and restored people in the future.

God preserves a remnant of his people

Noah and his family

Genesis 7:23 See also Genesis 6:7-8,18; Genesis 7:1,7

Joseph and the sons of Israel

Genesis 45:7 See also Genesis 50:20

Seven thousand faithful in Israel

1 Kings 19:18

Survivors of Assyria's invasion of Judah

2 Kings 19:4 pp Isaiah 37:4 See also 2 Kings 18:13

Survivors of the destruction of Israel

People from the northern kingdom of Israel who had moved to Judah and so escaped its destruction by Assyria:

2 Chronicles 11:14; 2 C 9; 2 C 6; 2 C 9

Judah as the remnant of God's people

2 Kings 17:18

After the fall of the northern capital, Samaria, Judah was regarded as the remnant of all Israel:

2 Kings 21:14; 2 Chronicles 34:21

Survivors of the fall of Jerusalem

Those taken as exiles into Babylon:

2 Kings 25:11; 2 Chronicles 36:20

Those left behind in Judah:

2 Kings 25:12 pp Jeremiah 39:10; 2 Kings 25:22-23; Jeremiah 40:11-12,15; Jeremiah 42:2; Jeremiah 43:5

Those who returned after the exile

Those waiting for Jesus Christ's coming

Luke 2:25,38; John 1:12

The remnant as the few who escape judgment

Deuteronomy 4:27 See also Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27; Jeremiah 6:9; Jeremiah 44:14,28; Ezekiel 5:12

Ezekiel prays that Israel's destruction will not be total:

Ezekiel 9:8; Ezekiel 11:13 Ezekiel 17:21; Amos 3:12; Amos 5:3

God's promise of hope and restoration

Hope for a remnant seen in the coming of the Messiah

Isaiah 11:1 See also Isaiah 6:13; Jeremiah 23:5; Zechariah 3:8

God's promise that survivors will remain

Isaiah 4:2-3 See also Isaiah 1:9; Romans 9:29; Isaiah 17:6; Isaiah 37:31-32 pp 2 Kings 19:30-31; Ezekiel 14:22; Joel 2:32

Themes associated with the remnant

The land restored to the remnant of God's people

Isaiah 27:12-13; Zephaniah 2:7-10; Zechariah 8:6-12; Zechariah 10:9

A second exodus

Isaiah 4:5-6; Isaiah 10:26; Isaiah 11:11,15-16; Isaiah 31:5; Jeremiah 16:14-15

Restoration of the people

Isaiah 10:20-21 See also Isaiah 11:12; Isaiah 28:5; Isaiah 35:8-10; Isaiah 46:3-4; Jeremiah 31:7

Jeremiah 23:3 See also Micah 2:12

Further promises associated with the remnant

The promise of future hope

Isaiah 60:21-22; Isaiah 61:4-6; Joel 3:1; Micah 4:6-7; Micah 5:7-9

God's promise of forgiveness to the remnant

Jeremiah 50:20 See also Isaiah 33:24; Jeremiah 31:34; Jeremiah 33:7-8; Micah 7:18

A renewed relationship with God

Jeremiah 24:5-7; Jeremiah 32:37-40; Zephaniah 3:12-17

The need for faithful obedience

Isaiah 1:19; Jeremiah 42:6-10; Jeremiah 44:7-8; Ezra 9:14

The remnant as heirs of God's new covenant

Jeremiah 31:2 The promise of the new covenant is made to the surviving remnant of Israel; Jeremiah 31:31-33

A faithful remnant among the Jews

Romans 11:5 See also Luke 1:16; Luke 12:32; Romans 11:7,15,23,25-26; James 1:1

A faithful remnant from among the Gentiles

Isaiah 56:6-8; Zechariah 14:16; John 10:16 Jesus Christ's other sheep are believing Gentiles who will be gathered with the believers of Israel; Acts 15:17; Amos 9:12; Romans 11:17; Ephesians 3:6

God's new Israel includes all believers

Matthew 19:28 pp Luke 22:30; Galatians 6:16; 1 Peter 1:1; Peter 2:9

Other references to a surviving remnant

Og, king of Bashan, only survivor of the Rephaites:

Deuteronomy 3:11; Joshua 13:12 Judges 20:46-47 survivors from the tribe of Benjamin; 2 Chronicles 18:16 the scattered remains of Israel's army under Ahab; Isaiah 16:4 fugitives from Moab; Isaiah 21:16-17 few survivors from Kedar