Charles Ellicott Commentary 1 Kings 9:7

"then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples." — 1 Kings 9:7 (ASV)

Then will I cut off. —These warnings were repeated with terrible force by Jeremiah on the eve of their fulfillment. (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.