Before 607 B.C.E., Jehovah had urged the people of Judah: “Obey my voice, and I will become your God, and you yourselves will become my people; and you must walk in all the way that I shall command you, in order that it may go well with you. ”
यहोवा ने उन पर “विलम्ब से कोप ” किया, क्योंकि इस्राएली उसके चुने हुए लोग थे ।