104 Preface وَقُلنا مِن بَعدِهِ لِبَني إِسرائيلَ اسكُنُوا الأَرضَ فَإِذا جاءَ وَعدُ الآخِرَةِ جِئنا بِكُم لَفيفًاYusuf AliAnd We said thereafter to the Children of Israel, “Dwell securely in the land1 (of promise)”: but when the second of the warnings came to pass, We gathered you together in a mingled crowd.2The Israelites were taken to the Promised Land in Palestine, and they established their own kingdom there, but they forfeited God’s favour by their sins and backslidings and will have to answer like all souls by the laws of personal responsibility at the Day of Judgment.The second of the warnings: the first was probably that mentioned above, in 17:5 and the second that mentioned in 17:7 (middle). When this second warning clue to the rejection of Jesus came to pass, the Jews were gathered together in a mingled crowd. Some commentators understand the second warning to be the Day of Judgment, the Promise of the hereafter. (R).