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2 Kings 17:18 KJV
2 Kings · chapter 17 · verse 18
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.2 Kings 17:18 · King James Version
2 Kings 17:18 in context
16And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
18Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
19Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
20And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- removedçûwrto turn offH5493 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- angryʼânaphto breathe hardH599 →
- sightpânîymthe faceH6440 →
- tribeshêbeṭa scionH7626 →
- JudahYᵉhûwdâhJehudah , the name of five IsraelitesH3063 →
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Though the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was but briefly related, it is in these verses largely commented upon by our historian, and the reasons of it assigned, not taken from the second causes - the weakness of Israel, their impolitic management, and the strength and growing greatness of the Assyrian…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-23