2nd Kings Chapter 17 verse 18 Holy Bible
Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
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So the Lord was very angry with Israel, and his face was turned away from them: only the tribe of Judah kept its place.
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Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there remained but the tribe of Judah only.
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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.
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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.
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Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
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That Jehovah sheweth himself very angry against Israel, and turneth them aside from His presence; none hath been left, only the tribe of Judah by itself.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel; rather, that then the Lord was very angry, etc. We have here the apodosis of the long sentence beginning with ver. 7 and continuing to the end of ver. 17. When all that is enumerated in these verses had taken place, then the Lord was moved to anger against Israel, then matters had reached a crisis, the cup of their iniquity was full, and God's wrath, long restrained, descended on them. And removed them out of his sight. Removal out of God's sight is loss of his favor and of his care. "The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous" (Psalm 34:15) - he "knoweth their way," "watcheth ever them" (Jeremiah 31:28), "careth for them" (Psalm 146:8); but "the countenance of the Lord is against them [averted from them] who do evil" (Psalm 34:16). He will not look upon them nor hear them. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only. The "tribe of Judah" stands for the kingdom of the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin (see 1 Kings 11:31-36; 1 Kings 12:23; '2 Chronicles 17:14-18), into which the greater part of Dan and Simeon had also been absorbed. This became now, exclusively, God's "peculiar people," the object of his love and of his care. The writer, it must be remembered, belongs to the period of the Captivity, and is not speaking of the restored Israel.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Removed them out of his sight.--By banishing them from his land (2Kings 17:23)--an expression founded upon the old local conceptions of deity.The tribe--i.e., the kingdom. (Comp. 1Kings 11:36.)
