Therefore will I cause you to go, &c.] Because that after so many sinnes of your forefathers, punished by me from time to time, you have persevered in them, yea and have gone beyond them: I will execute the finall judgement upon you, in a totall desolation, and dispersion in strange countreys: to the grievousnesse of which, the captivitie of the people in Syria, caused by Hazael, who reigned in Damascus, shall no way be equall nor comparable, 2 Kings 13:3.