¹⁸ So the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them from his presence.^(A) Only the tribe of Judah was left, ¹⁹ and even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God. They followed the practices Israel had introduced.^{(B) 20} Therefore the Lord rejected all the people of Israel; he afflicted them and gave them into the hands of plunderers,^(C) until he thrust them from his presence.^(D)

²¹ When he tore^(E) Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat their king.^(F) Jeroboam enticed Israel away from following the Lord and caused them to commit a great sin.^{(G) 22} The Israelites persisted in all the sins of Jeroboam and did not turn away from them ²³ until the Lord removed them from his presence,^(H) as he had warned^(I) through all his servants the prophets. So the people of Israel were taken from their homeland^(J) into exile in Assyria, and they are still there.