2 Kings 17 · Verse 18

2 Kings 17:18

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.
2 Kings 17:18, King James Version

2 Kings 17:18 in other translations

BSBSo the LORD was very angry with Israel, and He removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained,
WEBTherefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
ASVTherefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
YLTThat Jehovah sheweth himself very angry against Israel, and turneth them aside from His presence; none hath been left, only the tribe of Judah by itself.
DARBYTherefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there remained but the tribe of Judah only.
BBESo the Lord was very angry with Israel, and his face was turned away from them: only the tribe of Judah kept its place.
WebsterTherefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

What does 2 Kings 17:18 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 18 Removed them out of his sight - Banished them from the promised land, from the temple, and from every ordinance of righteousness, as wholly unworthy of any kind of good. None left but the tribe of Judah only - Under this name all those of Benjamin and Levi, and the Israelites, who abandoned their idolatries and joined with Judah, are comprised. It was the ten tribes that were carried away by the Assyrians.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 17:7-23

Though the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was but briefly related, it is in these verses largely commented upon, and the reasons of it given. It was destruction from the Almighty: the Assyrian was but the rod of his anger, Is 10:5. Those that bring sin into a country or family, bring a plague into it, and will have to answer for all the mischief that follows. And vast as the outward wickedness of the…

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2 Kings 17:18 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיִּתְאַנַּ֨ףvai.yit.'a.Nafand he was angryH599
יְהוָ֤הYah.wehYahwehH3068
מְאֹד֙me.'OdveryH3966
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔לbe.Yis.ra.'Elwith IsraelH3478
וַיְסִרֵ֖םvay.si.Remand he removed themH5493
מֵעַ֣לme.'Alfrom onH5921
פָּנָ֑יוpa.Navface hisH6440
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
נִשְׁאַ֔רnish.'Aranyone was leftH7604
רַ֛קrakonlyH7535
שֵׁ֥בֶטShe.vet[the] tribe ofH7626
יְהוּדָ֖הye.hu.DahJudahH3063
לְבַדּֽוֹ\׃le.va.Doto only itH905

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Kings 17:18

  • 1 Kings 11:13

    Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.

  • 1 Kings 12:20

    And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

  • Hosea 11:12

    Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.

  • 1 Kings 11:32

    (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)

  • 1 Kings 11:36

    And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.

  • Deuteronomy 32:21-26

    They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. …

  • 2 Kings 23:27

    And the Lord said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

  • Hosea 9:3

    They shall not dwell in the Lord’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

  • Joshua 23:15

    Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the Lord your God promised you; so shall the Lord bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.

  • Joshua 23:13

    Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.

  • Jeremiah 15:1

    Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

  • Deuteronomy 29:20-28

    The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law: So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it; And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: …

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removed.
13:23; 23:27; De 29:20-28; 32:21-26; Jos 23:13,15; Jer 15:1; Ho 9:3
the tribe.
1Ki 11:13,32,36; 12:20; Ho 11:12

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Context

  • 2 Kings 17:17

    And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

  • 2 Kings 17:18

    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.

  • 2 Kings 17:19

    Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

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2 Kings 17:18 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Jehová por tanto se airó en gran manera contra Israel, y quitólos de delante de su rostro; que no quedó sino sólo la tribu de Judá.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et l’ Éternel fut très irrité contre Israël, et les ôta de devant sa face; il n’en resta que la seule tribu de Juda.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Da erzürnte Jehova sehr über Israel und tat es vor seinem Angesicht hinweg; es blieb nichts übrig, nur der Stamm Juda allein.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Iratusque est Dominus vehementer Israëli, et abstulit eos a conspectu suo, et non remansit nisi tribus Juda tantummodo.