2 Kings 17
1 Elah’s son Hoshea began to rule Israel after King Ahaz had ruled Judah for twelve years. Hoshea ruled in Samaria for nine years.
Εν τω δωδεκάτω έτει του Άχαζ βασιλέως του Ιούδα, εβασίλευσεν Ωσηέ ο υιός του Ηλά εν Σαμαρεία επί τον Ισραήλ, εννέα έτη.
2 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.
Και έπραξε πονηρά ενώπιον του Κυρίου, πλην ουχί ως οι βασιλείς του Ισραήλ οίτινες ήσαν προ αυτού.
3 [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.
Επ' αυτόν ανέβη Σαλμανασάρ ο βασιλεύς της Ασσυρίας· και έγεινεν Ωσηέ δούλος αυτού και έδιδεν εις αυτόν φόρον.
4 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.
Εύρηκε δε ο βασιλεύς της Ασσυρίας συνωμοσίαν εν τω Ωσηέ· διότι απέστειλε μηνυτάς προς τον Σω, βασιλέα της Αιγύπτου, και δεν έδωκε φόρον εις τον βασιλέα της Ασσυρίας, ως έκαμνε κατ' έτος· όθεν συνέκλεισεν αυτόν ο βασιλεύς της Ασσυρίας και έδεσεν αυτόν εν φυλακή.
5 Then he [brought the army of] Assyria to Israel, and they attacked everywhere in that land. His army surrounded Samaria [city] for three years.
Και ανέβη ο βασιλεύς της Ασσυρίας διά πάσης της γής· και ανέβη εις την Σαμάρειαν και επολιόρκησεν αυτήν τρία έτη.
6 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.
Εν τω εννάτω έτει του Ωσηέ, ο βασιλεύς της Ασσυρίας εκυρίευσε την Σαμάρειαν και μετώκισε τον Ισραήλ εις την Ασσυρίαν, και κατώκισεν αυτούς εν Αλά και εν Αβώρ, παρά τον ποταμόν Γωζάν, και εν ταις πόλεσι των Μήδων.
7 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.
Έγεινε δε τούτο, διότι οι υιοί του Ισραήλ ημάρτησαν εις Κύριον τον Θεόν αυτών, όστις ανήγαγεν αυτούς εκ γης Αιγύπτου, υποκάτωθεν της χειρός του Φαραώ βασιλέως της Αιγύπτου, και εσεβάσβησαν άλλους θεούς,
8 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).
και περιεπάτησαν εις τα νόμιμα των εθνών, τα οποία εξεδίωξεν ο Κύριος απέμπροσθεν των υιών Ισραήλ, και τα των βασιλέων του Ισραήλ, τα οποία εθέσπισαν.
9 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.
Και έπραττον οι υιοί του Ισραήλ κρυφίως πράγματα, τα οποία δεν ήσαν ευθέα ενώπιον Κυρίου του Θεού αυτών, και ωκοδόμησαν εις εαυτούς υψηλούς τόπους εν πάσαις ταις πόλεσιν αυτών, από πύργου φυλάκων έως οχυράς πόλεως.
10 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.
Και ανήγειραν εις εαυτούς αγάλματα και άλση επί πάντα υψηλόν λόφον και υποκάτω παντός δένδρου πρασίνου.
11 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.
Και εκεί εθυμίαζον επί πάντας τους υψηλούς τόπους, καθώς τα έθνη τα οποία ο Κύριος εξεδίωξεν απέμπροσθεν αυτών· και έπραττον πονηρά πράγματα διά να παροργίζωσι τον Κύριον·
12 Yahweh warned them many times that they should not worship idols, but they did it anyway.
και ελάτρευσαν τα είδωλα, περί των οποίων ο Κύριος είπε προς αυτούς, Δεν θέλετε κάμει το πράγμα τούτο.
13 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].”
Και διεμαρτυρήθη ο Κύριος κατά του Ισραήλ και κατά του Ιούδα, διά χειρός πάντων των προφητών, πάντων των βλεπόντων, λέγων, Επιστρέψατε από των οδών υμών των πονηρών και φυλάττετε τας εντολάς μου, τα διατάγματά μου, κατά πάντα τον νόμον τον οποίον προσέταξα εις τους πατέρας σας και τον οποίον απέστειλα εις εσάς διά μέσου των δούλων μου των προφητών.
14 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.
Πλην αυτοί δεν υπήκουσαν, αλλ' εσκλήρυναν τον τράχηλον αυτών, ως τον τράχηλον των πατέρων αυτών, οίτινες δεν επίστευσαν εις Κύριον τον Θεόν αυτών.
15 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.
Και απέρριψαν τα διατάγματα αυτού και την διαθήκην αυτού, την οποίαν έκαμε μετά των πατέρων αυτών, και τας διαμαρτυρήσεις αυτού, τας οποίας διεμαρτυρήθη εναντίον αυτών· και υπήγαν οπίσω της ματαιότητος, και εματαιώθησαν, και οπίσω των εθνών των πέριξ αυτών, περί των οποίων ο Κύριος προσέταξεν αυτούς, να μη πράξωσιν ως εκείνα.
16 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.
Και εγκατέλιπον πάσας ταις εντολάς Κυρίου του Θεού αυτών, και έκαμον εις εαυτούς χωνευτά, δύο μόσχους, και έκαμον άλση και προσεκύνησαν πάσαν την στρατιάν του ουρανού και ελάτρευσαν τον Βάαλ.
17 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.
Και διεβίβαζον τους υιούς αυτών και τας θυγατέρας αυτών διά του πυρός, και μετεχειρίζοντο μαντείας και οιωνισμούς, και επώλησαν εαυτούς εις το να πράττωσι πονηρά ενώπιον του Κυρίου, διά να παροργίζωσιν αυτόν.
18 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].
Διά ταύτα ο Κύριος ωργίσθη σφόδρα κατά του Ισραήλ και απέβαλεν αυτούς από προσώπου αυτού· δεν εναπελείφθη, παρά μόνη η φυλή του Ιούδα.
19 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.
Και ο Ιούδας έτι δεν εφύλαξε τας εντολάς Κυρίου του Θεού αυτού, αλλά περιεπάτησαν εις τα διατάγματα του Ισραήλ, τα οποία έκαμον.
20 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.
Και απέβαλεν ο Κύριος παν το σπέρμα του Ισραήλ και κατέθλιψεν αυτούς, και παρέδωκεν αυτούς εις την χείρα των διαρπαζόντων, εωσού απέρριψεν αυτούς από προσώπου αυτού.
21 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.
Διότι απεσχίσθη ο Ισραήλ από του οίκου Δαβίδ, και έκαμον βασιλέα τον Ιεροβοάμ υιόν του Ναβάτ· και ο Ιεροβοάμ απέσπασε τον Ισραήλ εξόπισθεν του Κυρίου, και έκαμεν αυτούς να αμαρτήσωσιν αμαρτίαν μεγάλην.
22 And the Israeli people continued to do the evil things that Jeroboam introduced. They did not turn away from those sins,
Διότι οι υιοί Ισραήλ περιεπάτησαν εν πάσαις ταις αμαρτίαις του Ιεροβοάμ, τας οποίας έπραξε· δεν απεμακρύνθησαν απ' αυτών,
23 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.
εωσού ο Κύριος απέβαλε τον Ισραήλ από προσώπου αυτού, καθώς ελάλησε διά χειρός πάντων των δούλων αυτού των προφητών. Και μετωκίσθη ο Ισραήλ από της γης αυτού εις την Ασσυρίαν, έως της ημέρας ταύτης.
24 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.
Και έφερεν ο βασιλεύς της Ασσυρίας ανθρώπους εκ Βαβυλώνος και από Χουθά και από Αυά και από Αιμάθ και από Σεφαρουΐμ, και κατώκισεν εν ταις πόλεσι της Σαμαρείας αντί των υιών Ισραήλ, και εκληρονόμησαν την Σαμάρειαν και κατώκησαν εν ταις πόλεσιν αυτής.
25 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.
Και εν τη αρχή της εκεί κατοικήσεως αυτών, δεν εφοβήθησαν τον Κύριον· και απέστειλεν ο Κύριος τους λέοντας μεταξύ αυτών, και εθανάτονον εξ αυτών.
26 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.”
Και είπον προς τον βασιλέα της Ασσυρίας, λέγοντες, Τα έθνη, τα οποία μετώκισας και εκάθισας εν ταις πόλεσι της Σαμαρείας, δεν γνωρίζουσι τον νόμον του Θεού της γής· διά τούτο απέστειλε τους λέοντας μεταξύ αυτών, και ιδού, θανατόνουσιν αυτούς, επειδή δεν γνωρίζουσι τον νόμον του Θεού της γης.
27 [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.”
Τότε ο βασιλεύς της Ασσυρίας προσέταξε, λέγων, Φέρετε εκεί ένα των ιερέων, τους οποίους μετωκίσατε εκείθεν· και ας υπάγωσι και ας κατοικήσωσιν εκεί· και ας διδάξη αυτούς τον νόμον του Θεού της γης.
28 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.
Και εις των ιερέων, τους οποίους μετώκισαν εκ της Σαμαρείας, ήλθε και κατώκησεν εν Βαιθήλ, και εδίδασκεν αυτούς πως να φοβώνται τον Κύριον.
29 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.
Έκαστον όμως έθνος έκαμον θεούς εις εαυτούς και έθεσαν εις τους οίκους των υψηλών τόπων, τους οποίους οι Σαμαρείται έκαμον, έκαστον έθνος εν ταις πόλεσιν αυτών, όπου κατώκουν.
30 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.
Και οι άνδρες της Βαβυλώνος έκαμον την Σοκχώθ-βενώθ, οι δε άνδρες της Χουθά έκαμον την Νεργάλ, και οι άνδρες της Αιμάθ έκαμον την Ασιμά,
31 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.
και οι Αυίται έκαμον την Νιβάζ και τον Ταρτάκ, και οι Σεφαρουΐται έκαιον τους υιούς αυτών διά του πυρός εις τον Αδραμμέλεχ και Αναμμέλεχ, θεούς των Σεφαρουϊτών.
32 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.
Ούτως εφοβούντο τον Κύριον· έκαμον δε εις εαυτούς εκ των εσχάτων μεταξύ αυτών ιερείς των υψηλών τόπων, οίτινες εθυσίαζον υπέρ αυτών εν τοις οίκοις των υψηλών τόπων.
33 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.
Εφοβούντο μεν τον Κύριον, ελάτρευον όμως τους ιδίους αυτών θεούς, κατά τον τρόπον των εθνών, όθεν μετωκίσθησαν.
34 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.
Έως της ημέρας ταύτης κάμνουσι κατά τους προτέρους τρόπους· δεν φοβούνται τον Κύριον και δεν πράττουσι κατά τα διατάγματα αυτών και κατά τας κρίσεις αυτών και κατά τον νόμον και την εντολήν, την οποίαν προσέταξεν ο Κύριος εις τους υιούς Ιακώβ, τον οποίον ωνόμασεν Ισραήλ·
35 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.
και έκαμε προς αυτούς ο Κύριος διαθήκην και προσέταξεν αυτούς, λέγων, Δεν θέλετε φοβηθή άλλους θεούς, και δεν θέλετε προσκυνήσει αυτούς ουδέ λατρεύσει αυτούς ουδέ θυσιάσει εις αυτούς·
36 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.
αλλά τον Κύριον, όστις σας ανήγαγεν εκ γης Αιγύπτου μετά δυνάμεως μεγάλης και εν βραχίονι εξηπλωμένω, αυτόν θέλετε φοβείσθαι και αυτόν θέλετε προσκυνεί και εις αυτόν θέλετε θυσιάζει,
37 You must always obey the laws and commands that I [told Moses to] write for you. You must not worship other gods.
και τα διατάγματα και τας κρίσεις και τον νόμον και την εντολήν, την οποίαν έγραψε διά σας, θέλετε προσέχει να εκτελήτε πάντοτε· άλλους δε θεούς δεν θέλετε φοβηθή·
38 And you must not forget the agreement that I made with your ancestors. You must not revere other gods.
και την διαθήκην, την οποίαν έκαμα προς εσάς, δεν θέλετε λησμονήσει και δεν θέλετε φοβηθή άλλους θεούς·
39 Instead, you must revere me, Yahweh, your God. If you do that, I will rescue you from the power [MTY] of all your enemies.”
αλλά Κύριον τον Θεόν σας θέλετε φοβείσθαι και αυτός θέλει σας ελευθερώσει εκ χειρός πάντων των εχθρών σας.
40 But the people [from those foreign nations] would not heed what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to adhere to their old customs.
Πλην δεν υπήκουσαν, αλλ' έκαμνον κατά τους προτέρους τρόπους αυτών.
41 So, they worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
Και τα έθνη ταύτα εφοβούντο μεν τον Κύριον, ελάτρευον όμως τα γλυπτά αυτών· και οι υιοί αυτών και των υιών αυτών οι υιοί, καθώς οι πατέρες αυτών έκαμνον, ούτω κάμνουσιν έως της ημέρας ταύτης.
