1 Kings 9:7

Then will I cut off. — These warnings were repeated with terrible force by Jeremiah on the eve of their fulfilment. (See Jeremiah 7:12; Jeremiah 24:9; Jeremiah 25:9.) The destruction of the Temple is by him compared with that which fell on Shiloh — no doubt, after the great defeat by the Philistines in the time of Eli (1 Samuel 4:5), although the history gives no record of it. The continued existence of the people, as a people, to be “a proverb and a byword,” through the Babylonish captivity, and through their present dispersion, is a fact to which the history of the world undoubtedly furnishes no parallel.