As he had said by all his servants the prophets—The writer refers not only to the extant prophecies of Moses (Leviticus 26:33; […

By all his servants the prophets. —Compare Hosea 1:6; Hosea 9:16; Amos 3:11–12;[Reference Amos 5:27…

It was a part of the Assyrian empire's tactics to take people away from their original location and resettle them in other places—to shift them to …

Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight
Suffered them to be carried captive into the land of Assyria:

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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…