17:18 So the Lord was furious 1 with Israel and rejected them; 2 only the tribe of Judah was left.
1 tn Heb “very angry.”
2 tn Heb “turned them away from his face.”
3 tn Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name perpetually (or perhaps “forever”).”
5 tn Heb “the remnant of my inheritance.” In this context the Lord’s remnant is the tribe of Judah, which had been preserved when the Assyrians conquered and deported the northern tribes. See 17:18 and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 269.
6 tn Heb “they will become plunder and spoils of war for all their enemies.”