The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king. This shows how widespread would be the range of the national calamity, which even the monarch, with all his guards and means of protection, should not escape: and at the same time how hopeless, when he who should have been their defender shared the captive fate of his subjects (2 Kings 24:12-15; 2 Kings 25:7).
There shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. The Hebrew exiles, with some honourable exceptions, as Daniel and his companions, Ezra and Nehemiah, were seduced or compelled into idolatry in the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities (Jeremiah 44:17-19). Thus the sin to which they had too often betrayed a perverse fondness, a deep-rooted propensity, became their punishment and their misery.