²⁶ The Lord had seen how bitterly everyone in Israel, whether slave or free,^(A) was suffering;^[a](B) there was no one to help them.^(C)

²⁷ And since the Lord had not said he would blot out^(A) the name of Israel from under heaven, he saved^(B) them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.