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And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
Jeremiah 24:10 — KJV
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Jeremiah 24:10
King James Version (KJV)
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Jeremiah 24:10
Verse 10 of 10
Commentary
Commentary on Jeremiah 24:10
Theological / DevotionalThe sword. See on ch. 14:12.
Off the land. The climax of the punishment to these disobedient ones is complete removal from the land of their inheritance, whether it comes by exile, by flight, or by death.
Most of the Jews who remained in Judea following the third deportation to Babylon in 586 B.C. voluntarily fled to Egypt after the murder of Gedaliah a few months later.
They did this in spite of Jeremiah’s warning that such a course of action would defeat the very purpose that prompted it — fear of further suffering at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar (see ch. 42). Little wonder that God represented these perverse men as “naughty figs.”
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