2 Kings 17:18

Therefore became the Lord very angry with Israel, and he removed them from his presence: there was none left but the tribe of Judah alone.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

In Context

17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divinations and enchantments, and sold themselves to do what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

19Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs of Israel which they had made.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:20And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end will be; for a perverse generation are they, children in whom there is no faith.

Joshua 23:13Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and stings in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.

Judges 18:30And the children of Dan erected for themselves the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Menasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the exile of the land.

1 Kings 11:32But the one tribe shall remain for him, on account of my servant David, and on account of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel;

1 Kings 12:20And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jerobo'am was returned, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, save the tribe of Judah alone.

2 Kings 21:14And I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance, and give them up into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 17:8-24

The Wickedness of Israel. ( b. c. 730.) 7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built… Read the whole commentary →

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