Verse 10
The Lord would send war and its accompanying disasters-famine and disease-on those of them still in the land, until they perished (cf. Jeremiah 21:7). Initial fulfillment came in 586 B.C. (cf. Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 28:37), and an even more extensive one followed in A.D. 70 (cf. Matthew 23:38).
"The natural reaction to the fate of the captives deported in 597, and to the good fortune of those who were left behind, was to see the former as God’s throw-outs, the bad figs; and to see the rest as his men of promise, the good figs that were worth keeping. But, as ever, God’s thoughts and plans were not at all what men imagined." [Note: Kidner, p. 93.]
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