<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> announced through<n id="1" /> his servants the prophets:

I will abandon this last remaining tribe among my people<n id="1" /> and hand them over to their enemies; they will be plundered and robbed by all their enemies,<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, &#8220;Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.&#8221;<n id="1" />

The king of Israel said, &#8220;Oh no!<n id="1" /> Certainly the <sc>Lordsc> has summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to the king of Moab!&#8221;

The <sc>Lordsc> was furious with<n id="1" /> Israel and handed them over to<n id="2" /> King Hazael of Syria and to Hazael&#8217;s son Ben Hadad for many years.<n id="3" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> had not decreed that he would blot out Israel&#8217;s memory<n id="1" /> from under heaven,<n id="2" /> so he delivered them through Jeroboam son of Joash.p>

So the <sc>Lordsc> rejected all of Israel&#8217;s descendants; he humiliated<n id="1" /> them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence.

Don&#8217;t let Hezekiah talk you into trusting in the <sc>Lordsc> when he says, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> will certainly rescue us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Elisha said to the king of Israel, &#8220;Why are you here?<n id="1" /> Go to your father&#8217;s prophets or your mother&#8217;s prophets!&#8221; The king of Israel replied to him, &#8220;No, for the <sc>Lordsc> is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.&#8221;

When they went back and told him, he said, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned,<n id="1" /> &#8216;In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel&#8217;s flesh.

Therefore take note that not one of the judgments the <sc>Lordsc> announced against Ahab&#8217;s dynasty has failed to materialize. The <sc>Lordsc> had done what he announced through his servant Elijah.&#8221;<n id="1" />

He restored the border of Israel from Lebo Hamath in the north to the sea of the Arabah in the south,<n id="1" /> in accordance with the word of the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel announced through<n id="2" /> his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.

Finally<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> rejected Israel<n id="2" /> just as he had warned he would do<n id="3" /> through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.p>

&#8220;Tell King Hezekiah of Judah this: &#8216;Don&#8217;t let your God in whom you trust mislead you when he says, &#8220;Jerusalem will not be handed over<n id="1" /> to the king of Assyria.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;With my many chariots<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I climbed up the high mountains,p> <p class="poetry">the slopes of Lebanon.p> <p class="poetry">I cut down its tall cedars,p> <p class="poetry">and its best evergreens.p> <p class="poetry">I invaded its most remote regions,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">its thickest woods.p>

The <sc>Lordsc> sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as he had warned he would do through his servants the prophets.<n id="1" />