The end of the northern kingdom of Israel: Abandon your evil ways and obey my commands, which are contained in the Law I gave to your ancestors. 2 Kings 17:13

The Bible relates that after the death of King Solomon the Kingdom of Israel was divided into two. Rehoboam, who was to succeed his father on the throne due to his inability to listen and his lack of common sense, that is, his lack of fear of God (constancy, firmness, devotion, and equanimity), produced a political schism in the holy land.
And the Kingdom of Israel was thus divided into the Kingdom of Judah with the tribes of Benjamin and Judah with their capital in Jerusalem, and the Northern Kingdom of Israel with the remaining ten tribes with Samaria as their capital. But the Northern Kingdom of Israel that remained in the hands of Jeroboam was born with a kind of original sin, because Jeroboam, in order to secure his kingdom and prevent the remaining ten tribes from returning to Rehoboam, ordered the construction of two golden calves for the sanctuaries of Dan and Bethel, and in this way made the Israelites sin against the God who had freed them from captivity in Egypt. As a result of this, the error, that is, the idolatry and the abandonment of the law, became the norms in Samaria and thus this kingdom was in some way condemned at the time of birth to its own destruction, because the law of Moses contains blessings for those who are faithful to it, but also contains misfortunes, God weighs the hearts, and thus a spiritual truth is fulfilled: "The righteous are guided and protected by the LORD, but the evil are on the way to their doom" Psalm 1:6.
This is why the Second Book of Kings, after recounting the end of Hosea, the last king of the northern kingdom of Israel, left a profound spiritual reflection on what happened to the Israelites: "The LORD had sent his messengers and prophets to warn Israel and Judah: ´Abandon your evil ways and obey my commands, which are contained in the Law I gave to your ancestors and which I handed on to you through my servants the prophets. But they would not obey; they were stubborn like their ancestors, who had not trusted in the LORD their God" 2 Kings 17:13-14.
The history of Israel then leaves men a reflection: to receive the love of God, men must first let themselves be loved; there is no blessing for fools.

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