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So the people of Israel were taken from their homeland into exile in Assyria, and they are still there. <a href="/nlt/2_kings/17.htm">New Living Translation</a> until the LORD finally swept them away from his presence, just as all his prophets had warned. So Israel was exiled from their land to Assyria, where they remain to this day. <a href="/esv/2_kings/17.htm">English Standard Version</a> until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day. <a href="/bsb/2_kings/17.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> Finally, the LORD removed Israel from His presence, as He had declared through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their homeland into Assyria, where they are to this day. <a href="/kjv/2_kings/17.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/2_kings/17.htm">New King James Version</a> until the LORD removed Israel out of His sight, as He had said by all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it is to this day. <a href="/nasb_/2_kings/17.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> until the LORD removed Israel from His sight, just as He had spoken through all His servants the prophets. So Israel went into exile from their own land to Assyria until this day. <a href="/nasb/2_kings/17.htm">NASB 1995</a> until the LORD removed Israel from His sight, as He spoke through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away into exile from their own land to Assyria until this day. <a href="/nasb77/2_kings/17.htm">NASB 1977 </a> until the LORD removed Israel from His sight, as He spoke through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away into exile from their own land to Assyria until this day. <a href="/lsb/2_kings/17.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> until Yahweh caused Israel to depart from His presence, as He spoke through all His slaves the prophets. So Israel went into exile from their own land to Assyria until this day. <a href="/amp/2_kings/17.htm">Amplified Bible</a> until the LORD removed Israel from His sight, just as He had foretold through all His servants the prophets. So Israel went into exile from their own land to Assyria to this day [the date of this writing]. <a href="/csb/2_kings/17.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Finally, the LORD removed Israel from his presence just as he had declared through all his servants the prophets. So Israel has been exiled to Assyria from their homeland to this very day. <a href="/hcsb/2_kings/17.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Finally, the LORD removed Israel from His presence just as He had declared through all His servants the prophets. So Israel has been exiled to Assyria from their homeland until today. <a href="/asv/2_kings/17.htm">American Standard Version</a> until Jehovah removed Israel out of his sight, as he spake by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day. <a href="/cev/2_kings/17.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> until the LORD got rid of them, just as he had warned his servants the prophets. That's why the people of Israel were taken away as prisoners to Assyria, and that's where they remained. <a href="/erv/2_kings/17.htm">English Revised Version</a> until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he spake by the hand of all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria, unto this day. <a href="/gwt/2_kings/17.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Finally, the LORD turned away from Israel as he had said he would through all his servants, the prophets. So the people of Israel were taken from their land to Assyria as captives, and they are still there today. <a href="/gnt/2_kings/17.htm">Good News Translation</a> until at last the LORD banished them from his sight, as he had warned through his servants the prophets that he would do. So the people of Israel were taken into exile to Assyria, where they still live. <a href="/isv/2_kings/17.htm">International Standard Version</a> until the LORD removed Israel from his presence, just as he had warned through all of his prophets who served him. So Israel was carried off into exile from their own land into Assyria, where they remain to this day. <a href="/msb/2_kings/17.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Finally, the LORD removed Israel from His presence, as He had declared through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their homeland into Assyria, where they are to this day. <a href="/net/2_kings/17.htm">NET Bible</a> Finally the LORD rejected Israel just as he had warned he would do through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day. <a href="/nheb/2_kings/17.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he spoke by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day. <a href="/wbt/2_kings/17.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> 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 to this day. <a href="/web/2_kings/17.htm">World English Bible</a> until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/2_kings/17.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> until YHWH has turned Israel aside from His presence, as He spoke by the hand of all His servants the prophets, and Israel is removed from off its land to Asshur, to this day. <a href="/ylt/2_kings/17.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> till that Jehovah hath turned Israel aside from His presence, as He spake by the hand of all His servants the prophets, and Israel is removed from off its land to Asshur, unto this day. <a href="/slt/2_kings/17.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Till Jehovah removed Israel from his face, as he spake by the hand of all his servants the prophets. And he will carry Israel into exile from his land to Assur, even to this day.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/2_kings/17.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Till the Lord removed Israel from his face, as he had spoken in the hand of all his servants the prophets: and Israel was carried away out of their land to Assyria, unto this day. <a href="/cpdv/2_kings/17.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> even when the Lord carried away Israel from his face, just as he had said by the hand of all his servants, the prophets. And Israel was carried away from their land into Assyria, even to this day. <a href="/nabre/2_kings/17.htm">New American Bible</a> Finally, the LORD removed Israel from his presence, just as he had declared through all his servants, the prophets. Thus Israel went into exile from their native soil to Assyria until this very day. <a href="/nrsvce/2_kings/17.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had foretold through all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/2_kings/17.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had declared by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their land to Assyria, where they are to this day. <a href="/hpbt/2_kings/17.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Until LORD JEHOVAH removed Israel from before him, as LORD JEHOVAH had said by the agency of all the Prophets, and he led the children of Israel captive from their land to Assyria until today.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/2_kings/17.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> until the LORD removed Israel out of His sight, as He spoke by the hand of all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria, unto this day. <a href="/sep/2_kings/17.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> until the Lord removed Israel from his presence, as the Lord spoke by all his servants the prophets; and Israel was removed from off their land to the Assyrians until this day. <a href="/parallel/2_kings/17-23.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FiLs3w_mMFQ?start=5937" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/2_kings/17.htm">Israel Exiled Because of Idolatry</a> …22The Israelites persisted in all the sins that Jeroboam had committed and did not turn away from them. 23<a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">Finally,</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer- (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5493.htm" title="5493: hê·sîr (V-Hifil-Perf-3ms) -- To turn aside. Or suwr; a primitive root; to turn off.">removed</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">Israel</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: mê·‘al (Prep-m) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">from</a> <a href="/hebrew/6440.htm" title="6440: pā·nāw (N-cpc:: 3ms) -- Face, faces. Plural of an unused noun; the face; used in a great variety of applications; also as a preposition.">His presence,</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ka·’ă·šer (Prep-k:: Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">as</a> <a href="/hebrew/1696.htm" title="1696: dib·ber (V-Piel-Perf-3ms) -- To speak. A primitive root; perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively, to speak; rarely to subdue.">He had declared</a> <a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: bə·yaḏ (Prep-b:: N-fsc) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)">through</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kāl- (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">all</a> <a href="/hebrew/5650.htm" title="5650: ‘ă·ḇā·ḏāw (N-mpc:: 3ms) -- Slave, servant. From abad; a servant.">His servants</a> <a href="/hebrew/5030.htm" title="5030: han·nə·ḇî·’îm (Art:: N-mp) -- A spokesman, speaker, prophet. From naba'; a prophet or inspired man.">the prophets.</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">So Israel</a> <a href="/hebrew/1540.htm" title="1540: way·yi·ḡel (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To uncover, remove. A primitive root; to denude; by implication, to exile; figuratively, to reveal.">was exiled</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: mê·‘al (Prep-m) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">from</a> <a href="/hebrew/127.htm" title="127: ’aḏ·mā·ṯōw (N-fsc:: 3ms) -- Ground, land. From 'adam; soil.">their homeland</a> <a href="/hebrew/804.htm" title="804: ’aš·šū·rāh (N-proper-fs:: 3fs) -- Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them, its region and its empire.">into Assyria,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">where they are to</a> <a href="/hebrew/2088.htm" title="2088: haz·zeh (Art:: Pro-ms) -- This, here. A primitive word; the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that.">this</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: hay·yō·wm (Art:: N-ms) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">day.</a> <div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/2_kings/18-11.htm">2 Kings 18:11-12</a> The king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes. / This happened because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD their God, but violated His covenant—all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded—and would neither listen nor obey. <a href="/2_kings/18-9.htm">2 Kings 18:9-10</a> In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it. / And at the end of three years, the Assyrians captured it. So Samaria was captured in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel. <a href="/2_kings/17-6.htm">2 Kings 17:6</a> In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes. <a href="/2_kings/17-18.htm">2 Kings 17:18</a> So the LORD was very angry with Israel, and He removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained, <a href="/2_kings/17-20.htm">2 Kings 17:20</a> So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence. <a href="/2_kings/17-21.htm">2 Kings 17:21</a> When the LORD had torn Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam led Israel away from following the LORD and caused them to commit a great sin. <a href="/1_kings/14-15.htm">1 Kings 14:15-16</a> For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger. / So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.” <a href="/1_kings/11-31.htm">1 Kings 11:31-33</a> and said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and I will give you ten tribes. / But one tribe will remain for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel. / For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did. <a href="/1_kings/12-19.htm">1 Kings 12:19-20</a> So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David. / When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David. <a href="/hosea/13-16.htm">Hosea 13:16</a> Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open. <a href="/hosea/9-3.htm">Hosea 9:3</a> They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria. <a href="/amos/5-27.htm">Amos 5:27</a> Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts. <a href="/isaiah/7-8.htm">Isaiah 7:8</a> For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people. <a href="/jeremiah/7-15.htm">Jeremiah 7:15</a> And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim. <a href="/matthew/23-37.htm">Matthew 23:37-38</a> O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! / Look, your house is left to you desolate.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>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 to this day.the Lord<a href="/2_kings/17-18.htm">2 Kings 17:18,20</a> 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… as he had said<a href="/2_kings/17-13.htm">2 Kings 17:13</a> Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.<a href="/1_kings/13-2.htm">1 Kings 13:2</a> And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.<a href="/1_kings/14-16.htm">1 Kings 14:16</a> And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.So was Israel<a href="/2_kings/17-6.htm">2 Kings 17:6</a> In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.<a href="/2_kings/18-11.htm">2 Kings 18:11,12</a> And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes: … <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_kings/17-6.htm">Assyria</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-11.htm">Carried</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-11.htm">Exile</a> <a href="/amos/9-14.htm">Exiled</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-18.htm">Face</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-20.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/genesis/30-25.htm">Homeland</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-22.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-20.htm">Presence</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-13.htm">Prophets</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-18.htm">Removed</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-13.htm">Servants</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-20.htm">Sight</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-22.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/2_kings/6-10.htm">Warned</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_kings/17-24.htm">Assyria</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-26.htm">Carried</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-27.htm">Exile</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-28.htm">Exiled</a> <a href="/2_kings/18-24.htm">Face</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-39.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/psalms/79-7.htm">Homeland</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-24.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/2_kings/21-2.htm">Presence</a> <a href="/2_kings/21-10.htm">Prophets</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-26.htm">Removed</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-35.htm">Servants</a> <a href="/2_kings/18-3.htm">Sight</a> <a href="/2_kings/18-6.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-26.htm">Warned</a><div class="vheading2">2 Kings 17</div>1. <a href="/2_kings/17-1.htm">Hoshea the Last King of Israel</a> 3. <a href="/2_kings/17-3.htm">Being subdued by Shalmaneser, he conspires against him with So, king of Egypt</a> 5. <a href="/2_kings/17-5.htm">Samaria for sinning is led into captivity</a> 24. <a href="/2_kings/17-24.htm">The strange nations transplanted into Samaria make a mixture of religions.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/2_kings/17.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/2_kings/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/2_kings/17.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>Finally, the LORD removed Israel from His presence This phrase marks the culmination of a long period of disobedience and idolatry by the northern kingdom of Israel. The removal from God's presence signifies a severe judgment, as God's presence was associated with blessing and protection. Theologically, this reflects the covenantal relationship where Israel's unfaithfulness led to divine discipline. The concept of being removed from God's presence echoes the expulsion from Eden (<a href="/genesis/3-23.htm">Genesis 3:23-24</a>), highlighting the gravity of sin and separation from God.as He had declared through all His servants the prophets The prophets, such as Amos, Hosea, and Isaiah, had repeatedly warned Israel of the consequences of their idolatry and injustice. This phrase underscores the faithfulness of God to His word and the role of prophets as His messengers. The prophetic warnings were not heeded, leading to the fulfillment of their dire predictions. This serves as a reminder of the importance of listening to God's word and the certainty of His promises, both of blessing and judgment.So Israel was exiled from their homeland into Assyria The exile to Assyria occurred in 722 BC under the reign of King Hoshea, marking the end of the northern kingdom. This event is historically significant as it led to the dispersion of the ten tribes, often referred to as the "Lost Tribes of Israel." Assyrian records corroborate the biblical account, providing archaeological evidence of the conquest and deportation. Theologically, the exile represents the consequences of breaking the covenant with God, as outlined in <a href="/deuteronomy/28-36.htm">Deuteronomy 28:36-37</a>.where they are to this day This phrase indicates the lasting impact of the exile, as the northern tribes did not return to their land as a collective group. It highlights the enduring nature of God's judgment and the historical reality of the Assyrian captivity. The phrase also serves as a reminder of the scattered state of Israel, which is a theme throughout the prophetic literature, pointing to a future hope of restoration and regathering, as seen in passages like <a href="/ezekiel/37-21.htm">Ezekiel 37:21-22</a>.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a> The covenant God of Israel, who is just and righteous, executing judgment as He had warned through His prophets. 2. <a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a> The Northern Kingdom, consisting of ten tribes, which fell into idolatry and disobedience against God’s commands. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_prophets.htm">The Prophets</a> God's messengers who warned Israel of the consequences of their disobedience, including figures like Elijah, Elisha, Amos, and Hosea. 4. <a href="/topical/a/assyria.htm">Assyria</a> The powerful empire that conquered Israel and took the people into exile, fulfilling God's judgment. 5. <a href="/topical/e/exile.htm">Exile</a> The event where the Israelites were removed from their land as a consequence of their persistent sin and rebellion against God.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_seriousness_of_sin.htm">The Seriousness of Sin</a> Sin has real consequences, and persistent disobedience leads to separation from God. We must take sin seriously and seek repentance. <a href="/topical/t/the_faithfulness_of_god's_word.htm">The Faithfulness of God’s Word</a> God’s warnings through His prophets were fulfilled. His Word is trustworthy and true, and we should heed His instructions and warnings. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_obedience.htm">The Importance of Obedience</a> Obedience to God is crucial for maintaining a relationship with Him. We should strive to live according to His commands and seek His guidance in all aspects of life. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_prophets_and_scripture.htm">The Role of Prophets and Scripture</a> God uses His Word and His messengers to guide and correct us. We should be attentive to the teachings of Scripture and the counsel of godly leaders. <a href="/topical/h/hope_in_restoration.htm">Hope in Restoration</a> While this passage speaks of judgment, the broader biblical account includes God’s promise of restoration for those who return to Him. We can find hope in God’s mercy and grace.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_2_kings_17.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 2 Kings 17</a> <a href="/q/what_is_the_samaritan_pentateuch.htm">What is the Samaritan Pentateuch?</a> <a href="/q/what_is_bozrah's_biblical_significance.htm">When was 2 Kings written?</a> <a href="/q/what_happened_to_israel's_lost_tribes.htm">What happened to Israel's lost tribes?</a> <a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_psalm_8_with_harsh_judgments.htm">How do we reconcile Psalm 8’s depiction of a caring God with other biblical passages that portray divine indifference or harsh judgment toward humans?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_kings/17.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(23) By all his servants the prophets.--Comp. <a href="/hosea/1-6.htm" title="And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And God said to him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.">Hosea 1:6</a>; <a href="/hosea/9-16.htm" title="Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.">Hosea 9:16</a>; <a href="/context/amos/3-11.htm" title="Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down your strength from you, and your palaces shall be spoiled.">Amos 3:11-12</a>; <a href="/amos/5-27.htm" title="Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, said the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.">Amos 5:27</a>; <a href="/context/isaiah/28-1.htm" title="Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!">Isaiah 28:1-4</a>.So was Israel carried away.--That the land was not entirely depopulated appears from such passages as <a href="/2_chronicles/30-1.htm" title="And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover to the LORD God of Israel.">2Chronicles 30:1</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/34-9.htm" title="And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.">2Chronicles 34:9</a>. But henceforth "the distinctive character of the nation was lost; such Hebrews as remained in their old land became mixed with their heathen neighbours. When Josiah destroyed the ancient high places of the northern kingdom he slew their priests, whereas the priests of Judaean sanctuaries were provided for at Jerusalem. It is plain from this that he regarded the worship of the northern sanctuaries as purely heathenish (comp. <a href="/2_kings/23-20.htm" title="And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there on the altars, and burned men's bones on them, and returned to Jerusalem.">2Kings 23:20</a> with <a href="/2_kings/17-5.htm" title="Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.">2Kings 17:5</a>), and it was only in much later times that the mixed population of Samaria became possessed of the Pentateuch, and set up a worship on Mount Gerizim, in imitation of the ritual of the second Temple. We have no reason to think that the captive Ephraimites were more able to retain their distinctive character than their brethren who remained in Palestine. The problem of the lost tribes, which has so much attraction for some speculators, is a purely fanciful one. The people whom Hosea and Amos describe were not fitted to maintain themselves apart from the heathen among whom they dwelt. Scattered among strange nations, they accepted the service of strange gods (<a href="/deuteronomy/28-64.htm" title="And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth even to the other; and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, even wood and stone.">Deuteronomy 28:64</a>), and, losing their distinctive religion, lost also their distinctive existence." (Robertson Smith.) . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_kings/17.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 23. - Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight (see the comment on ver. 18) as he had said by all his servants the prophets. The destruction of the kingdom of Israel had been distinctly prophesied by Ahijah the Shilonite (<a href="/1_kings/14-15.htm">1 Kings 14:15, 16</a>), Hosea (Hosea 1:4; 9:3, 17), and Amos (<a href="/amos/7-17.htm">Amos 7:17</a>). General warnings and denunciations had been given by Moses (<a href="/leviticus/26-33.htm">Leviticus 26:33</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/4-26.htm">Deuteronomy 4:26, 27</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/28-36.htm">Deuteronomy 28:36</a>, etc.), by Isaiah (<a href="/isaiah/7-8.htm">Isaiah 7:8</a>; <a href="/isaiah/28-1.htm">Isaiah 28:1-4</a>), and probably by the entire series of prophets enumerated in the comment on ver. 13. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day; i.e. up to the time that the Second Book of Kings was written, about B.C. 580-560, the Israelites remained within the limits of the country to which they were carried by the conqueror. Not long after this time, about B.C. 538, a considerable number returned with Zerubbabel to Palestine, and others with Ezra (see <a href="/ezra/2-70.htm">Ezra 2:70</a>; <a href="/ezra/3-1.htm">Ezra 3:1</a>; <a href="/ezra/6-16.htm">Ezra 6:16, 17</a>; <a href="/ezra/7-13.htm">Ezra 7:13</a>; <a href="/ezra/8-35.htm">Ezra 8:35</a>-<a href="/1_chronicles/9-2.htm">1 Chronicles 9:2, 3</a>; <a href="/zechariah/8-13.htm">Zechariah 8:13</a>). What became of the rest has been a fertile subject of speculation. Probably the more religions united with the Jewish communities, which were gradually formed in almost all the cities of the East; while the irreligious laid aside their peculiar customs, and became blended indistinguishably with the heathen. 'There is no ground for expecting to find the "ten tribes" anywhere at the present day. <a href="/commentaries/2_kings/17-23.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Finally, עַ֠ד (‘aḏ) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> As far as, even to, up to, until, while the LORD יְהוָ֤ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel removed הֵסִ֨יר (hê·sîr) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5493.htm">Strong's 5493: </a> To turn aside Israel יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc from מֵעַ֣ל (mê·‘al) Preposition-m <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against His presence, פָּנָ֔יו (pā·nāw) Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6440.htm">Strong's 6440: </a> The face as כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר (ka·’ă·šer) Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that He had declared דִּבֶּ֔ר (dib·ber) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1696.htm">Strong's 1696: </a> To arrange, to speak, to subdue through בְּיַ֖ד (bə·yaḏ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3027.htm">Strong's 3027: </a> A hand all כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> The whole, all, any, every His servants עֲבָדָ֣יו (‘ă·ḇā·ḏāw) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5650.htm">Strong's 5650: </a> Slave, servant the prophets. הַנְּבִיאִ֑ים (han·nə·ḇî·’îm) Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5030.htm">Strong's 5030: </a> A spokesman, speaker, prophet So Israel יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc was exiled וַיִּ֨גֶל (way·yi·ḡel) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1540.htm">Strong's 1540: </a> To denude, to exile, to reveal from מֵעַ֤ל (mê·‘al) Preposition-m <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against their homeland אַדְמָתוֹ֙ (’aḏ·mā·ṯōw) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_127.htm">Strong's 127: </a> Ground, land into Assyria, אַשּׁ֔וּרָה (’aš·šū·rāh) Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_804.htm">Strong's 804: </a> Ashshur [where they are] to עַ֖ד (‘aḏ) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> As far as, even to, up to, until, while this הַזֶּֽה׃ (haz·zeh) Article | Pronoun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2088.htm">Strong's 2088: </a> This, that day. הַיּ֥וֹם (hay·yō·wm) Article | Noun - 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