19(But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.
20So the Lord would have nothing to do with all the offspring of Israel, and sent trouble on them, and gave them up into the hands of their attackers, till he had sent them away from before his face.)
21For Israel was broken off from the family of David, and they made Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, king, who, driving them away from the laws of the Lord, made them do a great sin.
22And the children of Israel went on with all the sins which Jeroboam did; they did not keep themselves from them;
23Till the Lord put Israel away from before his face, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was taken away from their land to Assyria, to this day.
24Then the king of Assyria took men from Babylon and from Cuthah and Avva and Hamath and Sepharvaim, and put them in the towns of Samaria in place of the children of Israel; so they got Samaria for their heritage, living in its towns.
25Now when first they were living there they did not give worship to the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, causing the death of some of them.
