²⁰ And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them ^(A)and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

²⁹ In the days of Pekah king of Israel, ^(A)Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured ^(B)Ijon, ^(C)Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, ^(D)Kedesh, ^(E)Hazor, Gilead, and ^(F)Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.

^3 (A)And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them continually into the hand of ^(B)Hazael king of Syria and into the hand of ^(C)Ben-hadad the son of Hazael.

⁹ They will suffer the punishment of ^(A)eternal destruction, ^(B)away from^[a] the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

The Remnant of Israel

11 I ask, then, ^(A)has God rejected his people? By no means! For ^(B)I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham,^[a] a member of the tribe of Benjamin. ^2 (C)God has not rejected his people whom he ^(D)foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?

⁴¹ “Then he will say to those on his left, ^(A)‘Depart from me, you ^(B)cursed, into ^(C)the eternal fire prepared for ^(D)the devil and his angels.

¹⁰ Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him, “What is this that you have done!” For the men knew that ^(A)he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.

³ But Jonah ^(A)rose to flee to ^(B)Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to ^(C)Joppa and found a ship going to ^(D)Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to ^(E)Tarshish, ^(F)away from the presence of the Lord.