Jeremiah 39:9

39:9 Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, ¹  took captive the rest of the people who were left in the city. He carried them off to Babylon along with the people who had deserted to him. ² 

Jeremiah 52:27

52:27 The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed ³  at Riblah in the territory of Hamath.

So Judah was taken into exile away from its land.

Leviticus 26:31-33

26:31 I will lay your cities waste ⁴  and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas. 26:32 I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled. 26:33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword ⁵  after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

Deuteronomy 28:15

Curses as Reversal of Blessings

28:15 “But if you ignore ⁶  the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force: ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 28:64-68

28:64 The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone. 28:65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair. 28:66 Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next. ⁸  28:67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see. 28:68 Then the Lord will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

Deuteronomy 28:2

28:2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance ⁹  if you obey the Lord your God:

Deuteronomy 25:1

25:1 If controversy arises between people, ¹⁰  they should go to court for judgment. When the judges ¹¹  hear the case, they shall exonerate ¹²  the innocent but condemn ¹³  the guilty.

¹ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

² tc The translation is based on an emendation of the text which leaves out “the rest of the people who were left” as a double writing of the same phrase at the beginning of the verse. Some commentators emend the phrase “the rest of the people who were left” (הַנִּשְׁאָרִים וְאֶת יֶתֶר הָעָם, hannish’arim vÿ’et yeter ha’am) to read “the rest of the craftsmen who were left” (וְאֶת יֶתֶר הָאָמוֹן הַנִּשְׁאָרִים, vÿ’et yeter ha’amon hannish’arim) on the basis of the parallel in Jer 52:15 (which does not have הַנִּשְׁאָרִים, hannish’arim). However, it is easier to explain the phrase as a dittography of the phrase at the beginning (which is exactly the same except הָעִיר [ha’ir] follows it). The text is redundant because it refers twice to the same group of people. The Hebrew text reads: “And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to him and the rest of the people Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, carried into exile to Babylon.” The text has also been divided up to create two shorter sentences to better conform with contemporary English style.

³ tn Heb “struck them down and killed them.”

⁴ tn Heb “And I will give your cities a waste”; NLT “make your cities desolate.”

⁵ tn Heb “and I will empty sword” (see HALOT 1228 s.v. ריק 3).

⁶ tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”

⁷ tn Heb “and overtake you” (so NIV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “and overwhelm you.”

⁸ tn Heb “you will not be confident in your life.” The phrase “from one day to the next” is implied by the following verse.

⁹ tn Heb “come upon you and overtake you” (so NASB, NRSV); NIV “come upon you and accompany you.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “men.”

¹¹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the judges) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² tn Heb “declare to be just”; KJV, NASB “justify the righteous”; NAB, NIV “acquitting the innocent.”

¹³ tn Heb “declare to be evil”; NIV “condemning the guilty (+ party NAB).”