Verse 12
And I will take the remnant of Judah ,.... Such as remained of that tribe in the land of Judea after the captivity: and not all of them, but such
that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there : who were bent upon going thither, notwithstanding all the remonstrances made to them to the contrary; and were gone thither, and were now actually sojourners there: this describes such persons who wilfully, and of their own accord, went thither; and excepts those who were over-persuaded or over-powered to go along with them:
and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt ; not by natural death, one after another; but by the judgments of God, as follows:
they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine ; by the sword of the king of Babylon; and by famine, occasioned by a foreign army and sieges:
they shall die; from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine ; which is repeated for the confirmation of it, and to express the universality of the destruction; that it should reach to persons of every age, state and condition, rank and degree, young and old, high and low, rich and poor:
and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse ,
and a reproach ; See Gill on Jeremiah 42:18 .
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