They are all hot as an oven, And devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.
When Israel rebelled against God and demanded a king like the nations around them  (1 Samuel 8:7), it was the beginning of the end for Israel.  In the bloody affairs of the northern Israel during the days of Hosea, the final dissolution of Ephraim was at hand; but it took several centuries more for the end to come for the southern Israel, Judah.  They indeed continued until the times of the Messiah, but it was their inordinate desire for an earthly king that continued to blind their eyes, resulting in their rejection of their true Lord and Messiah and the judicial hardening of the apostate nation.   (Romans 11:25).