Discovery Box2 Kings 17:18-23 
Context17:18 So the Lord was furious 1 with Israel and rejected them; 2 only the tribe of Judah was left. 17:19 Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the Lord their God; they followed Israel’s example. 3 17:20 So the Lord rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated 4 them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence. 17:21 He tore Israel away from David’s dynasty, and Jeroboam son of Nebat became their king. 5 Jeroboam drove Israel away 6 from the Lord and encouraged them to commit a serious sin. 7 17:22 The Israelites followed in the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and did not repudiate 8 them. 17:23 Finally 9 the Lord rejected Israel 10 just as he had warned he would do 11 through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.
1 tn Heb “very angry.”
2 tn Heb “turned them away from his face.”
3 tn Heb “they walked in the practices of Israel which they did.”
4 tn Or “afflicted.”
5 tn Heb “and they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king.”
6 tc The consonantal text (Kethib) assumes the verb is נָדָא (nada’), an alternate form of נָדָה (nadah), “push away.” The marginal reading (Qere) assumes the verb נָדָח (nadakh), “drive away.”
7 tn Heb “a great sin.”
8 tn Heb “turn away from.”
9 tn Heb “until.”
10 tn Heb “the
11 tn Heb “just as he said.”
