2 Kings 17:20

And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel ,.... The ten tribes, with loathing and contempt, and wrote a "loammi" on them, rejected them from being his people, gave them a bill of divorce, and declared them no more under his care and patronage:

and afflicted them ; as he did before he utterly cast them off, as by famine, drought, and pestilence, Amos 4:6 .

and delivered them into the hands of spoilers ; as, first, into the hands of Hazael and Benhadad, kings of Syria, and then of Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, 2 Kings 13:3 ,

until he had cast them out of his sight ; by suffering them, as now, to be carried captive by Shalmaneser, 2 Kings 17:6 .