(On the likeness of those (who suffered) a short time before them) He says: the similitude of Banu Qurayzah with regard to breaking covenants and the punishment inflicted upon them as a result is like that of the Banu'l-Nadir two years before them, (they taste the ill-effects of their conduct) they, i.e. Banu'l-Nadir, taste the punishment of breaking their covenant, (and theirs is painful punishment) in the Hereafter.