²⁷ And the Lord said, “I will also remove Judah from My sight, as ^(A)I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, ^(B)‘My name shall be there.’ ”

¹³ And I will stretch over Jerusalem ^(A)the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab; ^(B)I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

^11 (A)Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away captive to Assyria, and put them ^(B)in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

^4 (A)He also built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, ^(B)“In Jerusalem I will put My name.”

²⁰ And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and ^(A)delivered them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them from His ^(B)sight.

¹⁸ Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left ^(A)but the tribe of Judah alone.

³² “Thus says the Lord God:

³⁵ “Therefore thus says the Lord God:

²⁴ “Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families which the Lord has chosen, He has also cast them off’? Thus they have ^(A)despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them.