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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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God's Judgment as Exile
Commentators explain that God "removed them out of his sight" by exiling them from the Promised Land, the place of His special favor. This was not a removal from His all-seeing eye, but a tangible judgment. Matthew Henry notes that God used the Assyrian empire as the "rod of His anger" to carry out this sentence, demonstrating His sovereignty over nations.
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2 Kings
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19th Century
Anglican
Removed them out of his sight. — By banishing them from his land (2 Kings 17:23) — an expression founded upon…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel Nothing being more provoking to him than idolatry:
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Presbyterian
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…
