“And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.”
King James Version (KJV)
3:8 Given a bill - Delivered her up into the hands of the Assyrian, where God took from her the title of being his church, #2Kings 17:5|,6.