2 Siangpahrang 17
1 Judah siangpahrang Ahaz, a bawinae kum 12 navah, Elah capa, Hosi teh Isarelnaw koe Samaria vah siangpahrang lah ao teh kum 9 touh a uk.
Elah’s son Hoshea began to rule Israel after King Ahaz had ruled Judah for twelve years. Hoshea ruled in Samaria for nine years.
2 BAWIPA mithmu vah thoenae ouk a sak. Hatei a yon e Isarel siangpahrangnaw ma patetlah teh sak hoeh.
He did many things that Yahweh considered to be evil, but he did not do as many evil things as the previous kings of Israel had done.
3 Assiria siangpahrang Shalmaneser ni a tuk teh, Hosi teh Salmaneser e san lah ao teh kum tangkuem tamuk a poe.
[The army of] King Shalmaneser of Assyria attacked and defeated [the army of] King Hoshea. As a result, the Israelis were forced to pay a lot of tribute/taxes to Assyria each year.
4 Hathnukkhu hoi kum tangkuem a poe e tamuk hah poe hoeh. Izip siangpahrang So koevah patounenaw a patoun teh, ahnimouh youk hanelah pouknae hah, Assiria siangpahrang ni a panue dawkvah, Hosi teh a man awh teh thawng pabo awh.
But several years later, Hoshea secretly planned to rebel against the rulers of Assyria. He sent messengers to So/Osorkon, the king of Egypt, [asking if his army could help the Israelis fight against the army of Assyria]. Hoshea also stopped paying the tribute/taxes that he had been paying to Assyria every year. But the king of Assyria found out about those things, so he told his officers to put Hoshea in prison.
5 Assiria siangpahrang Shalmaneser ni, Isarel ram a tuk teh Samaria khopui kum thum touh thung koung a kalup.
Then he [brought the army of] Assyria to Israel, and they attacked everywhere in that land. His army surrounded Samaria [city] for three years.
6 Hosi a bawinae kum 9 navah, Assiria siangpahrang ni Samaria hah a la. Isarelnaw teh Assiria vah a ceikhai awh teh Halah ram hoi Gozan ram, Harbor palang teng Midiannaw e kho dawk ao sak awh.
Finally, after King Hoshea had been ruling Israel for nine years, the army of Assyria [MTY] [forcefully entered] the city [and] captured [the people]. They took the Israeli people to Assyria and forced some of them to live in Halah [town]. They forced others to live near the Habor River in Gozan district. They forced others to live in the towns where the Mede people-group lived.
7 Hot patetlah a onae teh, Isarelnaw ni Izip siangpahrang Faro kut dawk hoi Izip ram hoi katâcawtkhaikung Jehovah Cathut koevah yonnae a sak awh teh alouke cathut hah alawkpui lah a pouk awh dawk doeh.
Those things happened because the Israeli people had sinned against Yahweh their God. He had rescued their [ancestors] from the power [MTY] of the king of Egypt and brought them [safely] out of Egypt, but later they began to worship other gods.
8 BAWIPA ni, Isarelnaw hmalah a pâlei pouh e miphunnaw e phunglawk hah, Isarel siangpahrang ni a tarawi dawkvah hote phunglam patetlah kho a sak awh dawk doeh.
They imitated the things that the heathen/pagan people-groups did. Those were the groups that Yahweh had expelled as the Israelis occupied their land. The Israeli people also did the evil things that the kings of Israel (introduced/showed to them).
9 Isarelnaw ni BAWIPA Cathut koe thoenae hah, arulahoi meng a sak awh dawkvah a khonaw pueng dawk ramveng imrasang koehoi kamtawng teh rapan ka tawn e kho totouh hmuenrasang a sak awh.
The Israeli people also secretly did many things that were not pleasing to Yahweh their God. They built shrines [to worship idols] in all their cities, including small towns and big cities with walls around them.
10 Mon karasang pueng hoi thingkung tâhlip vah talung a ung awh teh thing dawk meikaphawk hah a sak awh.
They set up stone pillars [to honor gods], and poles [to worship the goddess] Asherah at the top of every high hill and under every [big] tree.
11 Hahoi hmuenrasang pueng koe, BAWIPA ni a hmalah a pâlei e miphunnaw ni a sak awh e patetlah hmuitui hah hmai hoi a sawi awh teh, BAWIPA lungphuen sak hanelah thoenae a sak awh.
The Israelis burned incense in every place where they worshiped those gods, just like the people-groups who lived there previously had done—the groups that Yahweh had expelled from the land. The Israelis did many wicked things that caused Yahweh to become angry.
12 Bangkongtetpawiteh, BAWIPA ni ahnimouh koe hete hno heh na sak awh mahoeh ati e meikaphawk thaw na tawk awh.
Yahweh warned them many times that they should not worship idols, but they did it anyway.
13 Hot um hoi hai BAWIPA ni na yonnae kamlang takhai awh. Na mintoenaw ka poe e kâpoelawknaw hoi phunglawknaw pueng ka san profet ka patoun e naw ni a dei awh patetlah a profetnaw hoi kahmawtkungnaw hno lahoi a panue sak awh.
Yahweh frequently sent his prophets and (seers/those who saw visions from Yahweh) to warn the people of Israel and the people of Judah. The message that Yahweh gave them was, “Turn away from all your evil behavior. Obey my commands and my laws, the laws that I told your ancestors [to obey] and which I told the prophets who served me to tell to you [again].”
14 Hatei, ngai pouh hoeh teh, a na mintoenaw ni, BAWIPA Cathut yuem ngai laipalah, a lunglen awh e patetlah a lungpata sak awh.
But the Israeli people would not pay attention. They were stubborn [IDM] just like their ancestors were. Just like their ancestors did, they refused to believe in Yahweh their God.
15 A phunglam hoi a na mintoenaw koe a lawkkam ahnimouh koe a panue sak e lawk hah, banglahai noutna awh hoeh teh cungkeihoehnaw a panki awh teh, banglahai yah tho kalawn hoeh. Ahnimouh kong dawk BAWIPA ni hot patetlah sak van awh hanh telah a dei tangcoung e hah, a teng kaawm e miphunnaw ni a sak awh e patetlah a kamtu awh.
They rejected Yahweh’s laws and the agreement that he had made with their ancestors. They ignored Yahweh’s warnings. They worshiped worthless idols and as a result they themselves became worthless. Although Yahweh had commanded them not to imitate the evil behavior of the people-groups that lived near them, they disobeyed that command.
16 BAWIPA Cathut e kâpoelawknaw pueng hah, a hnamthun takhai awh teh, maitoca meikaphawk kahni touh a sak awh. Kalvan e kaawmnaw pueng hah a bawk awh. Baal thaw a tawk awh.
The Israeli people disobeyed all of Yahweh’s commands. They made two metal calves [to worship]. They set up two poles [to worship the goddess] Asherah, and they worshiped [the god] Baal, and the sun, the moon, and the stars.
17 A lungphuennae a kâan sak nahanelah, a canu a capanaw hah, hmai hoi thuengnae a sak awh. Camthoumnae hoi taân a sin awh teh, BAWIPA mithmu thoenae sak hanelah ka yo awh.
They also burned their own sons and daughters to be sacrifices [to those gods]. They went to fortune-tellers and they practiced sorcery. They continually chose [MET] to do [all kinds of] evil things that caused Yahweh to become angry.
18 Hatdawkvah, BAWIPA teh Isarelnaw koe a lungphuen poung teh a hmaitung hoi a takhoe awh. Bangkongtetpawiteh, Judah miphun hloilah kacawie awm hoeh toe.
So, because Yahweh was very angry with the Israeli people, he allowed [their enemies] to take them away [from their country]. Only the people of the tribe of Judah were left [in the land].
19 Judahnaw ni hai BAWIPA Cathut e kâpoelawknaw a tarawi awh hoeh teh Isarel phunglam hah a dawn awh.
But even the people of Judah did not obey the commands of Yahweh their God. They imitated the evil customs that the Israelis had introduced.
20 BAWIPA ni Isarel catounnaw hah a pahnawt teh a mithmu vah he kahmat lah a puen hoehroukrak a rek teh ahni katuknaw kut dawk a poe.
So Yahweh rejected all the people of Israel and of Judah. He punished them by allowing the armies of other nations to defeat them [and take them away]. He got rid of all of them.
21 Isarel teh Devit imthung dawk hoi a phen teh hahoi Nebat capa Jeroboam hah siangpahrang lah a la awh. Jeroboam ni Isarelnaw e BAWIPA lam a dawn e hah lam a phen sak teh kalenpounge yonnae hah a sak sak awh.
Earlier, when Yahweh allowed the people of Israel to separate/break away from the area [MTY] that King David [had estabished], they chose Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, to be their king. Then Jeroboam enticed the people of Israel to stop worshiping Yahweh [and to worship idols instead]. He led them to commit great sins.
22 Isarel catounnaw ni Jeroboam ni a sak e yonnae hah a sak awh. Hote hnonaw pueng teh, BAWIPA ni a profetnaw hno lahoi a dei pouh tangcoung patetlah a hmuhoehnae hmuen koe he a takhoe hoehroukrak cettakhai hoeh toe.
And the Israeli people continued to do the evil things that Jeroboam introduced. They did not turn away from those sins,
23 Hahoi Isarelnaw teh, amamouh ram koehoi Assiria ram vah a hrawi teh atu totouh ao awh.
until finally Yahweh got rid of them. That was just what his prophets had warned would happen. The Israeli people were taken away to the land of Assyria, and they still remain there.
24 Assiria siangpahrang ni, Babilon Kuthah, Ivvah, Hamath, Sepharvaim, hoiyah khocanaw a thokhai teh, Samaria khopui dawkvah, Isarel catoun yueng lah a lawp sak. Hottelah hoi Samaria vah kho a sak awh, a khopui a lawp awh.
The king of Assyria [ordered his soldiers to] take [groups of] people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim [cities] to [the] Samaria [region], and to resettle them in the towns there, to take the place of the Israelis [who lived there previously]. Those people took control over [the whole] Samaria [region] and lived in the towns there.
25 Hote kho dawk ao pasuek nah, BAWIPA barilawa tawn awh hoeh. BAWIPA ni ahnimouh koe sendek a tha pouh teh tami tangawn koung a kei.
But those people [who came from other countries] did not worship Yahweh when they first arrived in Samaria. So Yahweh sent lions to kill some of them.
26 Hahoi Assiria siangpahrang koevah na takhoe awh e miphun Samaria khopui na khawng sak e naw ni hete ram dawk e cathut bawknae nuencang panuek awh hoeh. Hatdawkvah, ahnimouh koe sendek a tha sin teh khenhaw! het ram cathut bawknae nuencang a panue awh hoeh kecu dawk koung a kei telah a dei awh.
Then those people sent a message to the king of Assyria. They wrote, “We people who have resettled in the towns in Samaria do not know how to worship the God [that the Israelis worshiped] in this land. So he has sent lions among us to kill us, because we have not worshiped him correctly.”
27 Assiria siangpahrang ni, haw e san lah a la e naw koehoi vaihma buet touh ban sak nateh Cathut bawknae nuencang pâtu naseh telah kâ a poe.
[When] the king of Assyria [read this letter, he] commanded [his officers], “You brought many priests here from Samaria. Send one of them back there. Tell him to teach the people who are now living there how to worship correctly the God whom the Israelis worshiped in that land.”
28 Hahoi Samaria ram hoi a ceikhai e naw thung dawk hoi vaihma buet touh hah, Bethel kho vah ao teh BAWIPA barilawa awh thai nahan a pâtu awh.
So [the officers did that]. They sent one of the Israeli priests back to Samaria. That priest went to live in Bethel [city], and he taught the people there how to worship Yahweh.
29 Hatei miphun tangkuem ni, amamae cathut lengkaleng a sak awh, Samarianaw ni hmuenrasang a sak awh e hah, miphun tangkuem ni amamouh onae kho tangkuem vah a ta awh.
But the people [who returned from Babylon and started to live in Samaria and] continued to make their own idols. They placed them in the shrines that the Israelis had built there. The people of each people-group made idols in the cities in which they were living.
30 Babilonnaw ni Sukkothbenoth a sak awh teh Kuthahnaw ni, Nergal a sak awh. Hamathnaw ni Ashima a sak awh teh,
The people from Babylon made idols to represent their god Succoth-Benoth. The people from Cuthah made idols to represent their god Nergal. The people from Hamath made idols to represent their god Ashima.
31 Avvitnaw ni Nibbaz hoi Tartak a sak awh. Hahoi Sepharvaim ni Sepharvaim e cathut Adrammelek hoi Anamalek vah a canaw hah hmai a sawi awh.
The people of Avva made idols to represent their gods Nibhaz and Tartak. The people from Sepharvaim sacrificed their own children. They completely burned them [in pits where hot fires were kept burning, ] as offerings to their gods Adrammelech and Anammelech.
32 BAWIPA teh barilawa a tâ awh teh, amamouh thung dawk hoi hmuenrasang vaihma hah a sak awh teh ayânaw hanlah, thuengnae a sak pouh awh.
But those people also worshiped Yahweh, and they appointed from among their own groups many people to be priests at the shrines on the tops of the hills, in order that those priests could offer sacrifices for them there.
33 BAWIPA teh a taki awh ngoun eiteh, a tâcotakhai awh e, amamae ram e phunglam, a cathut thaw hah ouk a tawk awh.
So they revered Yahweh, but they also worshiped their own gods, just as the people living in the countries from which they had been taken to Samaria did.
34 Ha hoehnahlan e ouk a sak awh, e patetlah atu totouh a sak awh rah. BAWIPA teh taket awh hoeh. BAWIPA ni, Jakop catounnaw, Isarel telah a phung e naw koe,
They still keep their old customs. They really do not worship Yahweh, and they do not obey all the laws and commands that Yahweh gave to the descendants of Jacob, to whom he gave the new name Israel.
35 Cathut alouke taket hanh awh. Ahnimouh teh bawk hanh awh, a thaw hai tawk pouh hanh awh. Ahnimouh koe thuengnae sak hanh awh.
Yahweh had previously made an agreement with their ancestors, commanding them not to worship other gods or bow down to honor them or do other things to please them or offer sacrifices to them.
36 BAWIPA ni a lentoenae hnosakthainae hoi a dâw e kut hoi Izip ram hoi na ka hrawi e BAWIPA hah taket awh nateh bawk awh thuengnae poe awh.
He had said to them, “You must have an awesome respect for me, Yahweh, the one who brought you out of Egypt with my very great power [DOU]. I am the one whom you must bow down to honor, and I am the one to whom you must offer sacrifices.
37 Phunglawk, kâlawk, kâpoelawk yungyoe na hringkhai awh hanelah, ama ni na thut pouh e doeh. Alouke cathutnaw hah taket han awh.
You must always obey the laws and commands that I [told Moses to] write for you. You must not worship other gods.
38 Nangmouh koe ka kam e lawkkam hah na pahnim awh mahoeh. Cathut alouke hah na taket awh mahoeh.
And you must not forget the agreement that I made with your ancestors. You must not revere other gods.
39 BAWIPA Cathut na taki awh han, hahoi na tarannaw e kut dawk hoi na rungngang han telah a ti.
Instead, you must revere me, Yahweh, your God. If you do that, I will rescue you from the power [MTY] of all your enemies.”
40 Hatei ahnimouh ni tarawi han ngai awh hoeh, yampa e a sak e patetlah pou a sak awh.
But the people [from those foreign nations] would not heed what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to adhere to their old customs.
41 Hot patetlah, hete miphunnaw ni BAWIPA teh a taki awh. Hatei a sak awh e meikaphawk thaw hai a tawk awh. A catounnaw totouh, a na mintoenaw ni a sak awh e patetlah sahnin totouh pou a sak awh rah.
So, they worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
