And be not ye like your fathers. — From the days of Jeroboam downwards.
And like your brethren. — Of Naphtali and the Trans-Jordan, whom Tiglath-pileser carried captive.
Trespassed. — Were unfaithful to Jehovah.
Who therefore gave them up to desolation. — And He made them an astonishment (2 Chronicles 29:8).