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.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Sight, as objects of horror, cast away from the temple, and from the promised land.
Tribe, or kingdom. See 3 Kings xii. 20. Israel began to be rejected by God, when the schism took place. (Haydock)
It was entirely lost, when Salmanasar took the people into captivity. Some few were left; and these formed a part of the kingdom of Josias, on their returning to the service of the true God, (2 Paralipomenon xxxiv. 6.) while others fled into Egypt, Osee viii. 13., and ix. 3. (Calmet)
