They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation. This was the general object of Israel's enemies at all times (2 Kings 24:2; 2 Chronicles 20:11; Psalms 138:7; 1 Macc. 3:35; 5:2), and thus does not help much towards determining the date of the occasion here spoken of.
That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance (comp. Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 32:26; Psalms 34:16; Psalms 109:13).