2 Ruodhi 17
1 E higa mar apar gariyo mar loch Ahaz ruodh Juda, Hoshea wuod Ela nobedo ruoth e piny Israel kodak Samaria kendo norito pinyno kuom higni ochiko.
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 Timbene ne richo e nyim Jehova Nyasaye to ok kaka ruodhi Israel mane otelone notimo.
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 Shalmaneser ruodh Asuria nokedo gi Hoshea moloye kendo nobedo e bwo lochne kogolone osuru.
[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 To ruodh Asuria nofwenyo ni Hoshea ne en andhoga, nimar nooro ji ir Osorkon ruodh Misri, bende ne ok ochiw osuru ne ruodh Asuria kaka ne osebedo kotimo higa ka higa. Kuom mano Shalmaneser nomake mokete e od twech.
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 Ruodh Asuria nomonjo pinyno duto, mochopo nyaka Samaria kendo nogoyone agengʼa kuom higni adek.
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 E higa mar ochiko mar loch Hoshea, ruodh Asuria nokawo Samaria kendo nomako jo-Israel motero e twech Asuria. Nomiyogi kar dak Hala kod Gozan man but Aora Habor kaachiel gi mier mag Medes.
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 Magi duto notimore nikech jo-Israel notimo richo e nyim Jehova Nyasaye ma Nyasachgi, mane ogologi e piny Misri e bwo loch Farao ruodh Misri. Negilamo nyiseche mamoko
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 ka giluwo timbe mag ogendini mane Jehova Nyasaye osedaro oa kuomgi, to gi timbe moko mane ruodhi mag Israel noketo.
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 Jo-Israel notimo gik maricho lingʼ-lingʼ ne Jehova Nyasaye ma Nyasachgi. Chakre kuonde mingʼichogo gi malo nyaka kuonde mochiel motegno mag dala maduongʼ, negigero kuondegi motingʼore gi malo e miechgi duto.
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 Negichungo kite moyiedhi kod sirni mag Ashera ewi gode maboyo duto, kendo e tiend yiende duto motimo tipo.
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 Kamoro amora motingʼore gi malo ne giwangʼoe ubani mangʼwe ngʼar, mana kaka pinjeruodhi mane Jehova Nyasaye oseriembo kuomgi ne timo. Negitimo timbe maricho mane omiyo Jehova Nyasaye mirima.
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 Negilamo nyiseche manono, kata obedo ni Jehova Nyasaye nowachonegi niya, “Kik utim kamano.”
Yahweh warned them many times that they should not worship idols, but they did it anyway.
13 Jehova Nyasaye nosiemo Israel kod Juda kokalo kuom jonabi mage kod jokor, kawacho niya, “Lokri iwe yoreni maricho, luw wechena, kod yorena kaluwore gi chikena duto mane amiyo kwereu mondo oriti kendo mane amiyou kowuok kuom jotichna ma jonabi.”
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 To ne ok ginyal dewo kendo tokgi ne tek mana kaka kweregi mane ok oketo genogi kuom Jehova Nyasaye ma Nyasachgi.
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 Ne gidagi winjo buchene kod chikene mane otimo gi kweregi to gi siem mane omiyogi, negiluwo nyiseche maonge tich, ma gin bende gibedo ji manono. Negidonjo e kit timbe ogendini mane odak e diergi, kata obedo ni Jehova Nyasaye nosekwerogi ni kik gitim kaka gitimo kendo negitimo gik mane Jehova Nyasaye nokwerogi mondo kik gitim.
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 Negiweyo chike duto mag Jehova Nyasaye ma Nyasachgi magiloso nyiseche ariyo molos e kido mar nyaroya kendo machalo gi siro mar Ashera. Negikulore ne nyisechegi giwegi ma gilamo Baal.
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 Negichiwo yawuotgi kod nyigi kaka misango e mach. Negitimo timbe ajuoke kod mag nyakalondo ma gichiwore mar timo gik mamono e nyim Jehova Nyasaye, ma gimiye mirima.
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 Omiyo Jehova Nyasaye iye nowangʼ gi jo-Israel mi nogologi e nyime. Dhood joka Juda kende ema ne odongʼ,
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 to kata kamano jo-Juda bende ne ok orito chike Jehova Nyasaye ma Nyasachgi. Negiluwo mana timbe mane jo-Israel osiekogo.
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 Kuom mano Jehova Nyasaye ne odagi jo-Israel duto; nokumogi mi oketegi e lwet joyeko nyaka ne ogologi chutho e wangʼe.
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 Kane ogolo jo-Israel owuok e dhood Daudi negikawo Jeroboam wuod Nebat obedo ruodhgi. Jeroboam nowuondo jo-Israel mowuok oweyo luwo Jehova Nyasaye, momiyo gitimo richo mamono.
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 Jo-Israel nomedo timo richo duto mag Jeroboam kendo ne ok giweyo timogi,
And the Israeli people continued to do the evil things that Jeroboam introduced. They did not turn away from those sins,
23 nyaka Jehova Nyasaye nogologi kuome mana kaka ne osesiemogi kokadho kuom jotichne duto ma jonabi. Omiyo jo-Israel nogol oa e pinygi modhi e twech e piny Asuria kendo pod gin kuno nyaka chil kawuono.
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 Ruodh Asuria nokelo ji koa Babulon, Kutha, Ava, Hamath kod Sefarvaim moketogi gidak e miech Samaria mondo gikaw kar jo-Israel. Negikawo Samaria ma gidak e mieche duto.
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 E kinde mane gidak kuno mokwongo ne ok gilamo Jehova Nyasaye; omiyo Jehova Nyasaye nooro sibuoche e diergi monego jogi moko.
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 Wach nochopo ne ruodh Asuria niya, “Ji mane idaro midwoko e miech Samaria, ok ongʼeyo gima nyasaye mar pinyno dwaro. Kuom mano, oseoro sibuoche e diergi mondo oneg-gi nikech ji ok ongʼeyo gima nyasachgino dwaro.”
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 Eka ruodh Asuria nomiyogi chik kama: “Kaw achiel kuom jodolo mane igolo itero e twech Samaria mondo odog odag kuno kendo opuonj jogo gima nyasach pinyno dwaro.”
[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 Eka achiel kuom jodolo mane oter twech Samaria nobiro modak Bethel kendo opuonjogi kaka ilamo Jehova Nyasaye.
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 Kata kamano, oganda koganda noloso nyisechegi giwegi e miechgi mopogore opogore, kuonde mane gidakie, mi giketo nyiseche manono kuonde motingʼore mag lemo mane jo-Samaria oseloso.
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 Nyiseche mane gilamo e magi: Ji mane oa Babulon noloso Sukoth-Benoth, ji mane oa Kutha noloso Nergal to ji mane oa Hamath noloso Ashima;
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 Jo-Avi to noloso Nibhaz kod Tartak, to jo-Sefarvi nochiwo nyithindgi kaka misango ne Adramelek kod Anamelek mane gin nyiseche mag Sefarvaim.
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 Negilamo Jehova Nyasaye, to bende negiyiero jogi giwegi mopogore opogore mondo obednegi jodolo e kuonde lemo motingʼore gi malo.
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 Negilamo Jehova Nyasaye to bende negilamo nyisechegi giwegi kaluwore gi timbe pinje manogolgie.
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 Pod gitamore weyo timbegigo nyaka chil kawuono. Ok gilam Jehova Nyasaye kata rito buchene, wechene, chikene kod puonj ma Jehova Nyasaye nomiyo nyikwa Jakobo, ma bangʼe noloko nyinge ni Israel.
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 Kane Jehova Nyasaye otimo singruok gi jo-Israel, to nochikogi kama: “Kik ulam nyiseche mamoko kata kulorunegi, tiyonegi kata timonegi misango.
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 To Jehova Nyasaye mane ogolou Misri gi teko mangʼongo korieyo lwete, en ema nyaka ulame. En ema onego ukulrune kendo en ema uchiwne misengini.
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 Nyaka ubed motangʼ kurito buche, weche, chike kod puonj duto mane omiyou. Kik ulam nyiseche mamoko.
You must always obey the laws and commands that I [told Moses to] write for you. You must not worship other gods.
38 Kik wiu owil gi singruok mane atimo kodu bende kik ulam nyiseche mamoko.
And you must not forget the agreement that I made with your ancestors. You must not revere other gods.
39 To onego ulam Jehova Nyasaye ma Nyasachu, en ema obiro resou e lwet wasiku duto.”
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 To kata kamano, ne ok gidewo chikego, to negisiko mana ka gitimo timbegi machon.
But the people [from those foreign nations] would not heed what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to adhere to their old customs.
41 Kata e kinde mane ogendini ne lamo Jehova Nyasaye, to negisiko mana ka gitiyone nyisechegi manono. Nyithindgi kod nyikwagi pod osiko katimo timbe mane kweregi timo nyaka chil kawuono.
So, they worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
