Psalms 106:27 - Exposition

To overthrow their seed also among the nations. Like Ezekiel ( Ezekiel 20:23 ), the writer regards the Babylonish captivity as in part a punishment for the sins committed in the wilderness. And to scatter them in the lands (comp. Le 26:33; Deuteronomy 28:64 ). The Israelites were punished, not merely by being carried into captivity, but by being completely broken up as a nation, and "scattered" widely over Western Asia—some in Gozan and on the Khabonr ( 2 Kings 17:6 ), some in Haran ( 1 Chronicles 5:26 ), some in "the cities of the Modes" ( 2 Kings 18:11 ; Tobit 1:14; 3:7), others in Babylonia ( 2 Kings 24:14-16 ; 2 Chronicles 36:20 ; Ezekiel 1:1-3 , etc.). The "scattering" has in later times increased ever more and more.