2 Kings 17
1 in/on/with year two ten to/for Ahaz king Judah to reign Hoshea son: child Elah in/on/with Samaria upon Israel nine year
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 and to make: do [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye: seeing LORD except not like/as king Israel which to be to/for face: before his
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 upon him to ascend: rise Shalmaneser king Assyria and to be to/for him Hoshea servant/slave and to return: pay to/for him offering: tribute
[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 and to find king Assyria in/on/with Hoshea conspiracy which to send: depart messenger to(wards) So king Egypt and not to ascend: offer up offering: tribute to/for king Assyria like/as year in/on/with year and to restrain him king Assyria and to bind him house: home prison
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 and to ascend: rise king Assyria in/on/with all [the] land: country/planet and to ascend: rise Samaria and to confine upon her three year
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 in/on/with year [the] ninth to/for Hoshea to capture king Assyria [obj] Samaria and to reveal: remove [obj] Israel Assyria [to] and to dwell [obj] them in/on/with Halah and in/on/with Habor river Gozan and city Mede
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 and to be for to sin son: descendant/people Israel to/for LORD God their [the] to ascend: establish [obj] them from land: country/planet Egypt from underneath: owning hand: owner Pharaoh king Egypt and to fear: revere God another
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 and to go: walk in/on/with statute [the] nation which to possess: take LORD from face: before son: descendant/people Israel and king Israel which to make: do
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 and to do secretly son: descendant/people Israel word: thing which not right upon LORD God their and to build to/for them high place in/on/with all city their from tower to watch till city fortification
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 and to stand to/for them pillar and Asherah upon all hill high and underneath: under all tree luxuriant
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 and to offer: offer there in/on/with all high place like/as nation which to reveal: remove LORD from face: before their and to make: do word: thing bad: evil to/for to provoke [obj] LORD
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 and to serve: minister [the] idol which to say LORD to/for them not to make: do [obj] [the] word: thing [the] this
Yahweh warned them many times that they should not worship idols, but they did it anyway.
13 and to testify LORD in/on/with Israel and in/on/with Judah in/on/with hand: by all (prophet *Q(K)*) all seer to/for to say to return: turn back from way: conduct your [the] bad: evil and to keep: obey commandment my statute my like/as all [the] instruction which to command [obj] father your and which to send: depart to(wards) you in/on/with hand: by servant/slave my [the] prophet
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 and not to hear: hear and to harden [obj] neck their like/as neck father their which not be faithful in/on/with LORD God their
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 and to reject [obj] statute: decree his and [obj] covenant his which to cut: make(covenant) with father their and [obj] testimony his which to testify in/on/with them and to go: follow after [the] vanity and to become vain and after [the] nation which around them which to command LORD [obj] them to/for lest to make: do like/as them
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 and to leave: forsake [obj] all commandment LORD God their and to make to/for them liquid (two *Q(K)*) calf and to make Asherah and to bow to/for all army [the] heaven and to serve: minister [obj] [the] 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 and to pass [obj] son: child their and [obj] daughter their in/on/with fire and to divine divination and to divine and to sell to/for to make: do [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye: seeing LORD to/for to provoke him
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 and be angry LORD much in/on/with Israel and to turn aside: remove them from upon face his not to remain except tribe Judah to/for alone him
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 also Judah not to keep: obey [obj] commandment LORD God their and to go: walk in/on/with statute Israel which to make
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 and to reject LORD in/on/with all seed: children Israel and to afflict them and to give: give them in/on/with hand: power to plunder till which to throw them from face his
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 for to tear Israel from upon house: household David and to reign [obj] Jeroboam son: child Nebat (and to banish *Q(K)*) Jeroboam [obj] Israel from after LORD and to sin them sin great: large
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 and to go: walk son: descendant/people Israel in/on/with all sin Jeroboam which to make: do not to turn aside: depart from her
And the Israeli people continued to do the evil things that Jeroboam introduced. They did not turn away from those sins,
23 till which to turn aside: remove LORD [obj] Israel from upon face his like/as as which to speak: speak in/on/with hand: by all servant/slave his [the] prophet and to reveal: remove Israel from upon land: soil his Assyria [to] till [the] day [the] this
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 and to come (in): bring king Assyria from Babylon and from Cuthah [to] and from Ivvah and from Hamath and Sepharvaim and to dwell in/on/with city Samaria underneath: instead son: descendant/people Israel and to possess: take [obj] Samaria and to dwell in/on/with city her
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 and to be in/on/with beginning to dwell they there not to fear [obj] LORD and to send: depart LORD in/on/with them [obj] [the] lion and to be to kill in/on/with them
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 and to say to/for king Assyria to/for to say [the] nation which to reveal: remove and to dwell in/on/with city Samaria not to know [obj] justice: rule God [the] land: country/planet and to send: depart in/on/with them [obj] [the] lion and behold they to die [obj] them like/as as which nothing they to know [obj] justice: rule God [the] land: country/planet
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 and to command king Assyria to/for to say to go: send there [to] one from [the] priest which to reveal: remove from there and to go: went and to dwell there and to show them [obj] justice: rule God [the] land: country/planet
[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 and to come (in): come one from [the] priest which to reveal: remove from Samaria and to dwell in/on/with Bethel Bethel and to be to show [obj] them how? to fear [obj] LORD
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 and to be to make nation nation God his and to rest in/on/with house: home [the] high place which to make [the] Samaritan nation nation in/on/with city their which they(masc.) to dwell there
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 and human Babylon to make [obj] Succoth-benoth Succoth-benoth and human Cuthah to make [obj] Nergal and human Hamath to make [obj] 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 and [the] Avvite to make Nibhaz and [obj] Tartak and [the] Sepharvaim to burn [obj] son: child their in/on/with fire to/for Adrammelech and Anammelech (God Sepharvaim *Q(K)*)
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 and to be afraid [obj] LORD and to make to/for them from end their priest high place and to be to make: offer to/for them in/on/with house: home [the] high place
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 [obj] LORD to be afraid and [obj] God their to be to serve: minister like/as justice: custom [the] nation which to reveal: remove [obj] them from there
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 till [the] day: today [the] this they(masc.) to make: do like/as justice: custom [the] first: previous nothing they afraid [obj] LORD and nothing they to make: do like/as statute their and like/as justice: judgement their and like/as instruction and like/as commandment which to command LORD [obj] son: descendant/people Jacob which to set: name name his 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 and to cut: make(covenant) LORD with them covenant and to command them to/for to say not to fear God another and not to bow to/for them and not to serve: minister them and not to sacrifice to/for them
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 that if: except if: except [obj] LORD which to ascend: establish [obj] you from land: country/planet Egypt in/on/with strength great: large and in/on/with arm to stretch [obj] him to fear and to/for him to bow and to/for him to sacrifice
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 and [obj] [the] statute: decree and [obj] [the] justice: judgement and [the] instruction and [the] commandment which to write to/for you to keep: careful [emph?] to/for to make: do all [the] day: always and not to fear God another
You must always obey the laws and commands that I [told Moses to] write for you. You must not worship other gods.
38 and [the] covenant which to cut: make(covenant) with you not to forget and not to fear God another
And you must not forget the agreement that I made with your ancestors. You must not revere other gods.
39 that if: except if: except [obj] LORD God your to fear and he/she/it to rescue [obj] you from hand: power all enemy your
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 and not to hear: hear that if: except if: except like/as justice: custom their [the] first: previous they(masc.) to make: do
But the people [from those foreign nations] would not heed what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to adhere to their old customs.
41 and to be [the] nation [the] these afraid [obj] LORD and [obj] idol their to be to serve: minister also son: child their and son: child son: child their like/as as which to make: do father their they(masc.) to make: do till [the] day: today [the] this
So, they worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
