19. But even the people of Judah did not obey the laws of the Lord their God; they imitated the customs adopted by the people of Israel.
20. The Lord rejected all the Israelites, punishing them and handing them over to cruel enemies until at last he had banished them from his sight.
21. After the Lord had separated Israel from Judah, the Israelites made Jeroboam son of Nebat their king. Jeroboam made them abandon the Lord and led them into terrible sins.
22. They followed Jeroboam and continued to practise all the sins he had committed,
23. until at last the Lord banished them from his sight, as he had warned through his servants the prophets that he would do. So the people of Israel were taken into exile to Assyria, where they still live.