Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 12:16

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 heathen, whither they come, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

I will restrain the rage of the Chaldeans, and move them to some compassion towards some of the Jews, so that some, yet but few shall remain, the Sword shall not slay them for I Commission it, and twill not exceed its Commission, I send the Famine but some I will feed, and the Pestilence is my arrow and hits but where I direct it.

Including the Women also.

Either by relating those sins which were committed among them in Ierusalem, for which God was justly angry, and for which he punished them, though they were his own people. Or, else that though they should be silent, yet the very thing should speak it self, and their miseries should proclaim the wickednesses they had acted against God in their own Land. Or, by their wicked practices which in Captivity, and under the eye of the Heathen they commit, they will manifestly shew to the Heathen that God was just in all his severity.

Either the Jews or rather here the Chaldean Heathens.

Marginal references: Heb. men of number.