rsv 2Kings:17:18-23
rsv@2Kings:17:18 @ Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight; none was left but the tribe of Judah only.
rsv@2Kings:17:19 @ Judah also did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced.
rsv@2Kings:17:20 @ And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, and afflicted them, and gave them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
rsv@2Kings:17:21 @ When he had torn Israel from the house of David they made Jerobo'am the son of Nebat king. And Jerobo'am drove Israel from following the LORD and made them commit great sin.
rsv@2Kings:17:22 @ The people of Israel walked in all the sins which Jerobo'am did; they did not depart from them,
rsv@2Kings:17:23 @ until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.