Jeremiah 35:16,17

Therefore will. bring upon Judah..... all the evil that. have pronounced against them.

The threatenings of God, pronounced in Deut. chap. 28, by Isaiah, Jeremiah and other prophets, were all conditional. Blessings were promised for obedience; woes for disobedience. Now the national cup of iniquity was full, and the hour of destruction, long foretold, was at hand. In the hour when the temple should be desecrated by the Gentile and its sacred vessels carried away to Babylon, God bade them remember that these things had come "because he had spoken and they had not heard; called unto them and they had not answered." There is no greater insult than to treat the message of. king or. father as if he had not spoken; to meet it with silent contempt.