In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her whoredoms which were more than the whoredoms of her sister.
And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And (Jehovah) said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, that I should in any wise pardon them.
And (Jehovah) said, Call his name Lo-ammi; for ye are not my people, and I will not be your (God).
They say unto him, Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorcement, and to put (her) away?