“I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.”
The scattering: 'I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will send the sword after them until I have destroyed them.' This verse indicates exile (scattering among foreign nations) followed by the sword (military destruction). The phrase 'nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known' emphasizes the strangeness and distance of exile: the people will be displaced to unfamiliar lands. Theologically, this verse indicates that judgment includes both exile (removal from the land) and military destruction.
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