Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
What does 2 Kings 17:23 mean?
Though the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was but briefly related, it is in these verses largely commented upon, and the reasons of it given.
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Keep this verse inside 2 Kings 17:19-23 and alongside a few nearby related passages.
Commentary on 2 Kings 17:23
So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day. As he had said by all his servants the prophets - The writer refers not only to the extant prophecies of Moses ( Leviticus 26:33 ; Deuteronomy 4:26-27 ; Deuteronomy 28:36 , etc.), Ahijah the Shilohite (marginal reference), Hosea Hos 9:3 , Hosea 9:17 , and Amos Amo 7:17, but also to the entire series of warnings and predictions which prophet after prophet in a long unbroken succession had addressed to the disobedient Israelites 2 Kings 17:13 on their apostasy, and so leaving them wholly "without excuse" (see the 2 Kings 17:13 note).
Key words
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Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight,.
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Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight,.
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So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
Context in 2 Kings 17
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2 Kings 17 belongs to the middle movement of the book, especially the section often described as decline of Judah. Second Kings follows the ministries of Elijah and Elisha, recounts the decline of both kingdoms, and ends with Jerusalem’s fall and a faint glimmer of Davidic continuity. Read this chapter with the wider themes of prophetic witness, judgment, and exile in view so the individual verses keep their proper weight.
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Glossary
- Assyria Place
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Biblical region. Modern identification: Nineveh.