“Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.”
The expansion of judgment to include the plundering of all the wealth and treasures of Judah emphasizes the material devastation that will accompany military defeat. The riches of the city will be handed to enemies, and Pashhur himself will be taken into exile. The promise that Pashhur will die in Babylon, away from his homeland, represents the ultimate consequence of resisting God's word: exile and death in a foreign land.
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