2 Kings 18:12 meaning and explanation

This happened because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD their God, but violated His covenant—all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded—and would neither listen nor obey.

2 Kings 18:12, Berean Standard Bible

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The narrator pauses after describing Samaria's fall and the exile of the northern tribes to explain why it happened. The Assyrians besieged Samaria and captured it after three years, and the writer of Kings reads that disaster as covenant judgment.

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