And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people. — Fulfilled, literally, in this last dispersion.

Thou shalt serve other gods. — We do not know of Israel’s falling into actual idolatry in dispersion, except in Egypt (Jeremiah 44:17), and possibly in Babylon (Ezekiel 14:22. Comp. Deuteronomy 33:25). But they were slaves to the worshippers of other gods.

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