Jeremiah 39:9
39:9 Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard,
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.
Jeremiah 52:27
52:27 The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed
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
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
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 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:
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.
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
if you obey the
Lord your God:
Deuteronomy 25:1
25:1 If controversy arises between people, they should go to court for judgment. When the judges hear the case, they shall exonerate the innocent but condemn the guilty.