Are gone into captivity; either,
1. Are actually gone, which was true of the ten tribes in Hezekiah's reign, 2 Kings 18:9, under whom this prophecy might be uttered; or,
2. Shall certainly and shortly go, as the two tribes afterward did. They have no knowledge; no serious consideration of God's works, and of their own duty and danger. Their honourable men, who thought themselves quite out of reach of famine.