Israel’s defection from them. Together they recount the life and history of the Northern Kingdom through its final four momentous decades, issue warnings to Judah about a similar fate, and picture the manifold aspects of Yahweh’s sovereignty in a way that has struck terror and planted hope in the hearts of God’s people for countless generations. All markers in the book itself point to a date towards the end of the reign of Jeroboam II, who occupied the throne at Samaria as