So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day — The Deuteronomistic historian's perspective statement places this schism in the longue durée of Israel's history as one of enduring rupture. The phrase עַד־הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה (ad-hayom hazze, to this day) suggests the narrator writes from a period when the divided kingdom is already ancient history, likely during the Babylonian exile when Judah and Israel have both fallen. The word מֶרֶד (mered, rebellion) frames northern independence as an act against the LORD's chosen house, the theological perspective of the southern Deuteronomistic school.

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