This verse and the next are parenthetical. Here again, as in 2 Kings 17:13, the writer is led from his account of the sins and punishme…

Also Judah kept not ... —Judah was no real or permanent exception to the sins and punishment of…

Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God ,
&c.] But were infected with the idolatry of the ten tri…

Although the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was only briefly related, in these verses it is largely commented upon, and its reasons g…