8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
In the book of Hosea,
the prophet tells us that
because Judah would retain the knowledge of God, they would be saved; but
because Israel lost the knowledge of God the House of Israel would be destroyed.
Hosea 1:7
But I will
have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their
God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor
by horsemen.
Hosea 4:6
6 My people are
destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I
will also reject you from serving in my priesthood. Because you have forgotten
the Torah of your God, I will also forget your children.
It was the
House of Israel that was cut off while the House of Judah was saved. Yeshua
himself acknowledges this when talking to a Samaritan woman at a Jacob's Well.
John 4:22
22 … we know
what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews)