Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, do also to Jerusalem and her idols—Assyria's assumption that what befell the northern kingdom will necessarily befall the southern kingdom, missing the specific covenant commitments God has made to Judah and the house of David. This verse foreshadows the deliverance of Jerusalem even as Samaria fell, establishing that God's purposes for different segments of His people may differ radically. The confidence with which Assyria assumes the fall of Jerusalem becomes precisely the arrogance that will be shattered by Jerusalem's deliverance.

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