And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Gill's Exposition
And death shall be chosen rather than life,.... By them that should be alive in those times, who would be carried captive into other lands, and be used very hardly, and suffer greatly, by the nations…
Barnes' Notes
This evil family - The whole Jewish race. Which remain - The words are omitted by the Septuagint and Syriac versions.
These verses might fitly have been joined to the close of the foregoing chapter, as giving a further description of the dreadful desolation which the army of the Chaldeans should make in the land. It…
Cambridge Bible
The thoughts correspond closely with Lev 26:36 ff.; Deu 28:65 ff.
family See on Jer 3:14.
which remain repeated in MT. by the error of a copyist.
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