Lev 26:34-44, Deu 4:26-27, 28:36, 64-68, 29:24-28, 2Ki 17:6, 18, 23 | ESV | STEP | Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate , while you are in your enemies ’ land ; then the land shall rest , and enjoy its Sabbaths .

34 ^a“Then the land shall enjoy ^{▼▼Or pay for; twice in this verse; also verse 43} its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it. 36 And as for those of you who are left, ^cI will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The ^dsound of a ^edriven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. 37 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And ^fyou shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And those of you who are left shall ^grot away in your enemies’ lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.

40 “But if ^hthey confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they ⁱcommitted against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41 so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their ^juncircumcised heart is ^khumbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42 then I will ^lremember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will ^mremember the land. 43 But ⁿthe land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, ^oI will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and ^pbreak my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.

Deuteronomy 4:26-27

26 I ^qcall heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed. 27 And the Lord ^rwill scatter you among the peoples, ^sand you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.

Deuteronomy 28:36

36 “The Lord will ^tbring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you ^unor your fathers have known. And ^vthere you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 28:64-68

64 “And the Lord ^wwill scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and ^xthere you shall serve other gods ^yof wood and stone, ^zwhich neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 And ^aaamong these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but ^abthe Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and ^aca languishing soul. 66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life. 67 ^adIn the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and ^aethe sights that your eyes shall see. 68 And the Lord ^afwill bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that ^agyou should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

Deuteronomy 29:24-28

24 all the nations ^ahwill say, ^ai‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?’ 25 Then people will say, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, 26 and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them. 27 Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, ^ajbringing upon it all the curses written in this book, 28 and the Lord ^akuprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and ^alcast them into another land, as they are this day.’

2 Kings 17:6

The Fall of Israel

6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria ^amcaptured Samaria, ^anand he carried the Israelites away to Assyria ^aoand placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of ^apGozan, and in the cities of ^aqthe Medes.

2 Kings 17:18

18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but ^arthe tribe of Judah only.

2 Kings 17:23

23 until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, ^asas he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. ^atSo Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.