Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible

It added to the guilt of Judah that she had had the warning of her sister Israel‘s example, and had failed to profit by it.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

And the Lord said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel. Not from his all seeing eye, but from being the object of his special care and protection; the meaning is, that he would suffer them to he carried out of their land into captivity as Israel was; this he had said in his heart, was determined upon; the decree was gone forth, and it was irrevocable:

and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen: for the place of his worship, the people having forsaken his worship there, and followed after idols:

and the house of which I said, my name shall be there; the temple, called after his name, and where his name was to be, and had been, called upon.

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

I said — Upon the conditions in sundry places expressed, which they broke, and therefore God justly made them to know his breach of promise.

John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Kings 23:27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

Ver. 27. I will remove Judah also out of my sight.] Who was now grown worse than Israel, [Jeremiah 3:11] and was therefore worse, because she should have been better warned by the others’ harms.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

To wit, upon the conditions in sundry places expressed, which they broke, and therefore God justly made them to know his breach of promise, as he threatens, Numbers 14:34.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

27.The Lord said — By the prophets.

Out of my sight — Not out of his knowledge and remembrance. But hitherto Judah had stood as the specially favoured of Jehovah — as in the Divine presence — and the light and smile of his countenance had shone upon them; but now this nearness must end.

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 23:27. I will cast off this city, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there — God promised upon conditions, in sundry places expressed, that his name should be there. These conditions they broke, and therefore God justly made them to know his breach of promise.

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

as = according as.

I have chosen = I once, or erewhile, chose.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

I will remove

17:18,20; 18:11; 21:13; 24:3; 25:11; Deuteronomy 29:27,28; Ezekiel 23:32-35

out of my sight

Psalms 51:11; Jeremiah 31:37; 33:24; Lamentations 2:7

My name

21:4,7; 1 Kings 8:29; 9:3

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:16 - my name;  1 Kings 11:13 - for Jerusalem's;  2 Kings 21:11 - Because;  2 Kings 24:2 - according;  2 Kings 25:21 - So Judah;  2 Chronicles 34:24 - I will bring;  Isaiah 24:5 - because;  Isaiah 26:15 - thou hadst;  Jeremiah 15:4 - because;  Jeremiah 32:31 - that I;  Jeremiah 52:27 - Thus;  Zephaniah 2:2 - the decree;  Romans 11:1 - Hath God