⁵ The Lord provided a deliverer^(A) for Israel, and they escaped from the power of Aram. So the Israelites lived in their own homes as they had before. ⁶ But they did not turn away from the sins^(B) of the house of Jeroboam, which he had caused Israel to commit; they continued in them. Also, the Asherah pole^[a](C) remained standing in Samaria.

⁷ Nothing had been left^(D) of the army of Jehoahaz except fifty horsemen, ten chariots and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had destroyed the rest and made them like the dust^(E) at threshing time.