Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah alone.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
- KJV 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.
- BSB So the LORD was very angry with Israel, and He removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained,
- NASB So the Lord was very angry with Israel, and He removed them from His sight; no one was left except the tribe of Judah.
- NLT Because the Lord was very angry with Israel, he swept them away from his presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained in the land.
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Quick answer
The LORD, very angry, removed Israel from His presence, leaving only Judah. The northern kingdom is judged and cast away.
Overview
God's righteous anger results in Israel's removal from the land and from His favorable presence. Only the tribe of Judah, along with Benjamin, remains as the bearer of the Davidic promise. This sobering outcome shows both the certainty of divine justice and God's preservation of a remnant through whom His redemptive purposes would continue.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- 1 Kgs 12:20When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only.
- 1 Kgs 11:13However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”
- Deut 32:21–26They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
- Hos 11:12Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is unfaithful to the Holy One.
- 1 Kgs 11:36To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
- 1 Kgs 11:32(but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);
- 2 Kgs 23:27Yahweh said, “I will also remove Judah out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’”
- Hos 9:3They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
- 2 Kgs 13:23But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect for them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, and he didn’t cast them from his presence as yet.
- Jer 15:1Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!
- Josh 23:13know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
- Josh 23:15It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you,
- Deut 29:20–28Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
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