Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 7:15

15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your Brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

Viz. The 10 Tribes, Isa. 7.1, 2. compared called by this name often, because that was the most numerous and potent of all of them, and because their Kings proceeded from the stock of Ephraim. Ieroboam their first King of that Tribe a[illegible: 1 letter]d it is said emphatically the whole seed, because the Jews had but half the Tribe of Manasseh joined with them, and so might look upon themselves somewhat inferiour.

You shall have my presence with, and watchful eye over you no more, but I will send you into Captivity to Babylon, as I did your Brethren into Assyria; see on 2 King. 17.6, 18. and he terms them here Brethren, to let them know, that they, and Israel proceeded from the same stock, and therefore had no reason to expect, but it should fare alike with them, seeing their sins were alike, 2 King. 21.13, 14, &c.