So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!” ¹ 

The city is left in ruins; ¹  the gate is reduced to rubble. ² 

Then Jehu killed all who were left of Ahab’s family in Jezreel, and all his nobles, close friends, and priests. He left no survivors.

Now King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, as governor over the people whom he allowed to remain in the land of Judah. ¹ 

They said to me, “The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are experiencing considerable ¹  adversity and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem lies breached, and its gates have been burned down!” ² 

The sovereign Lord says this: “The city that marches out with a thousand soldiers ¹  will have only a hundred left; the town ²  that marches out with a hundred soldiers ³  will have only ten left for the family of Israel.” ⁴ 

This is the land that remains: all the territory of the Philistines and all the Geshurites,

Sometime later ¹  Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, so she and her two sons were left alone.

But he ¹  left behind some of the poor of the land and gave them fields and vineyards.

But he ¹  left behind some of the poor ²  and gave them fields and vineyards.

I will leave in your midst a humble and meek group of people, ¹  and they will find safety in the Lord’s presence. ² 

all the clans that remain, each separately with their wives.”

One of his advisers replied, “Pick some men and have them take five of the horses that are left in the city. (Even if they are killed, their fate will be no different than that of all the Israelite people – we’re all going to die!) ¹  Let’s send them out so we can know for sure what’s going on.” ² 

The frogs will depart from you, your houses, your servants, and your people; they will be left only in the Nile.”

“‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of ¹  their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ ²  iniquities which are with them.

Furthermore, the Lord your God will release hornets ¹  among them until the very last ones who hide from you ²  perish.

The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.

No Anakites were left in Israelite territory, though some remained in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.

Then Naomi’s two sons, Mahlon and Kilion, also died. ¹  So the woman was left all alone – bereaved of her two children ²  as well as her husband!

He removed from the land any male cultic prostitutes who had managed to survive the reign of his father Asa. ¹