Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 28:36

36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, and there shalt thou serve other gods h, wood and stone.

Either being corrupted by their examples and counsels, or compelled to it by their tyranny. So what formerly was their choice and delight now becomes their plague and misery. And this doubtless was the condition of many Ifraelites under the Assyrian and Babylonish captivities, as we may gather from Ier. 44. 17, 18, 19. and other places, though many of them kept themselves free from that infection.

f The calamity shall be both universal, which even thy King shall not be able to avoid, much less the subjects who have far less advantage and opportunity for escape; and irrecoverable, because he who should protect or rescue them is lost with them. See Lam. 4. 20.

Marginal references: 2 King. [illegible: 1 word] 5. and 24. 1[illegible: 1+ letters]. and 25. 7. [illegible: 1+ letters] Chron. 33. [illegible: 1 word]; Jer. 17. 3.