So Jehu eradicated Baal worship from Israel.

The remnant of Benjamin must be preserved. An entire Israelite tribe should not be wiped out.

She said, “The glory has departed from Israel, because the ark of God has been captured.”

When they heard the law, they removed from Israel all who were of mixed ancestry.

You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

The Israelites regretted what had happened to their brother Benjamin. They said, “Today we cut off an entire tribe from Israel!

So the Lord sent a plague through Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.

The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime.

He hired 100,000 Israelite warriors for a hundred talents of silver.

So the Lord cut off Israel’s head and tail, both the shoots and stalk in one day.

So the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit the people; many people of Israel died.

Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

They said, “Why, O Lord God of Israel, has this happened in Israel?” An entire tribe has disappeared from Israel today!”

So the Philistines fought. Israel was defeated; they all ran home. The slaughter was very great; thirty thousand foot soldiers fell in battle.

She named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” referring to the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.

Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Abijah and his army thoroughly defeated them; 500,000 well-trained Israelite men fell dead.

The celebration included the entire assembly of Judah, the priests, the Levites, the entire assembly of those who came from Israel, the resident foreigners who came from the land of Israel, and the residents of Judah.

These are the ones that came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon, and Immer (although they were unable to certify their family connection or their ancestry, as to whether they really were from Israel):

These are the ones who came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon, and Immer (although they were unable to certify their family connection or their ancestry, as to whether they were really from Israel):