Deuteronomy 28:50 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 50. A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard, &c.— Such were the Chaldeans. The sacred historian, 2 Chronicles 36:17 expressly declares, that, for the wickedness of the Jews, God brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men—and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age; but gave them all into his hand. Such also were the Romans; for when Vespasian entered Gedara, as Josephus informs us, "he slew all, man by man, the Romans shewing mercy to no age, out of hatred to the nation, and from a remembrance of their former injuries." The like slaughter was made at Gamala; "for, (the same historian observes) nobody escaped, except two women, and they by concealing themselves from the rage of the Romans, who did not so much as spare young children; but every one at that time snatching up many, cast them down from the citadel." Bell. Jud. lib. 3: cap. 7 sect. 1 lib. 4: cap. 1 sect. 10. Bishop Newton.