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.
Pada tahun kedua belas pemerintahan Raja Ahas atas Yehuda, Hosea anak Ela menjadi raja Israel, dan ia memerintah di Samaria sembilan tahun lamanya.
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.
Ia berdosa kepada TUHAN, tetapi dosanya tidak sebanyak dosa raja-raja Israel yang memerintah sebelumnya.
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.
Ia diperangi dan ditaklukkan oleh Salmaneser raja Asyur, sehingga setiap tahun ia harus membayar upeti kepadanya.
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.
Tetapi pada suatu ketika, Hosea mengirim utusan kepada So raja Mesir untuk minta bantuannya. Lalu Hosea berhenti membayar upeti tahunan kepada Asyur. Ketika Salmaneser mengetahui tentang perbuatan Hosea itu, ia menangkap Hosea dan memasukkannya ke dalam penjara.
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.
Kemudian Salmaneser raja Asyur menyerang Israel dan mengepung Samaria. Pada tahun ketiga dari pengepungan itu,
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.
--yang merupakan tahun kesembilan pemerintahan Hosea--Salmaneser merebut Samaria. Lalu orang Israel diangkutnya sebagai tawanan ke Asyur. Sebagian dari mereka ditempatkannya di kota Halah, sebagian di dekat Sungai Habor di wilayah Gozan, dan sebagian lagi di kota-kota di negeri Madai.
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.
Samaria jatuh karena orang Israel berdosa kepada TUHAN, Allah mereka, yang telah menyelamatkan mereka dari raja Mesir, dan membawa mereka keluar dari negeri itu. Mereka menyembah ilah-ilah lain
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).
dan mengikuti kebiasaan bangsa-bangsa yang telah diusir TUHAN pada waktu bangsa Israel maju memerangi bangsa-bangsa itu. Bangsa Israel menuruti adat istiadat yang ditetapkan oleh raja-raja Israel,
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.
dan melakukan hal-hal yang tidak diperkenankan oleh TUHAN, Allah mereka. Mereka mendirikan tempat-tempat penyembahan dewa di semua kota mereka, baik di kota kecil maupun di kota besar.
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.
Di atas setiap bukit, dan di bawah setiap pohon yang rindang, mereka mendirikan tugu-tugu dan patung-patung Dewi Asyera.
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.
Mereka juga membakar dupa pada semua mezbah untuk dewa, seperti kebiasaan bangsa-bangsa yang telah diusir TUHAN dari negeri Kanaan. Mereka menyembah berhala, meskipun TUHAN telah melarangnya. Segala perbuatan mereka yang jahat membangkitkan kemarahan TUHAN.
12 Yahweh warned them many times that they should not worship idols, but they did it anyway.
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].”
TUHAN mengirim utusan-utusan dan nabi-nabi-Nya kepada umat Israel dan Yehuda untuk menyampaikan peringatan ini: "Berhentilah berbuat jahat dan taatilah segala perintah dan hukum yang Kuberikan kepada leluhurmu dan kepadamu melalui para nabi, hamba-hamba-Ku itu."
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.
Tetapi Israel dan Yehuda tidak mau mendengar. Mereka keras kepala seperti leluhur mereka yang tidak percaya kepada TUHAN, Allah mereka.
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.
Israel dan Yehuda tidak mau mentaati perintah-perintah TUHAN dan tidak setia kepada perjanjian yang telah dibuat-Nya dengan leluhur mereka. Mereka tidak menghiraukan teguran-teguran-Nya, melainkan beribadat kepada berhala-berhala yang tak berguna, sehingga mereka sendiri pun menjadi tidak berguna. Mereka mengikuti teladan bangsa-bangsa di sekeliling mereka, meskipun TUHAN telah melarangnya.
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.
Mereka melanggar semua hukum TUHAN, Allah mereka, dan membuat dua sapi dari logam untuk disembah. Mereka membuat patung Dewi Asyera, menyembah bintang-bintang dan beribadat kepada Dewa Baal.
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.
Mereka mempersembahkan anak-anak mereka sebagai kurban bakaran kepada dewa. Mereka memakai ilmu gaib dan meminta petunjuk dari dukun-dukun yang dapat berhubungan dengan roh-roh. Mereka begitu giat melakukan hal-hal yang tidak menyenangkan hati TUHAN
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].
sehingga Ia marah sekali kepada mereka dan tidak lagi memperhatikan mereka. Ia membuang mereka dari tanah yang diberikan-Nya kepada mereka; yang tertinggal hanyalah kerajaan Yehuda.
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.
Orang-orang Yehuda pun tidak mentaati hukum-hukum TUHAN, Allah mereka. Mereka mengikuti kebiasaan-kebiasaan orang Israel,
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.
maka TUHAN tidak lagi mengakui seluruh umat Israel. Ia menghukum dan menyerahkan mereka kepada musuh-musuh mereka yang kejam. Ia tidak lagi memperhatikan mereka, melainkan membuang mereka dari tanah yang diberikan-Nya kepada mereka.
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.
Setelah TUHAN memisahkan Israel dari Yehuda, orang Israel mengangkat Yerobeam anak Nebat menjadi raja mereka. Lalu Yerobeam membuat mereka meninggalkan TUHAN dan melakukan dosa-dosa yang besar.
22 And the Israeli people continued to do the evil things that Jeroboam introduced. They did not turn away from those sins,
Mereka mengikuti teladan Yerobeam dan tetap melakukan semua dosa yang diperbuatnya,
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.
sehingga akhirnya TUHAN tidak lagi memperhatikan mereka, melainkan membuang mereka dari tanah yang diberikan-Nya kepada mereka. Itu terjadi sesuai dengan peringatan yang diberikan TUHAN kepada mereka melalui hamba-hamba-Nya, para nabi. Demikianlah orang Israel dibawa ke pembuangan di Asyur, dan di situlah mereka tinggal sampai hari ini.
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.
Sebagai pengganti orang Israel yang telah diangkut ke pembuangan itu, raja Asyur menempatkan di kota-kota Samaria, orang-orang dari Babel, Kuta, Awa, Hamat, dan Sefarwaim. Orang-orang itu menduduki kota-kota itu dan menetap di situ.
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.
Pada waktu mereka mula-mula tinggal di situ mereka tidak menghormati TUHAN; itu sebabnya TUHAN mendatangkan singa-singa untuk menerkam sebagian dari mereka.
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.”
Lalu orang memberitahukan kepada raja Asyur bahwa orang-orang yang ditempatkannya di kota-kota di Samaria tidak mengenal hukum-hukum dewa negeri itu. Itu sebabnya dewa itu mendatangkan singa untuk menerkam mereka.
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.”
Karena itu raja Asyur memerintahkan supaya seorang imam dari antara para tawanan yang telah dibuang ke Asyur, dikirim kembali ke Samaria. "Suruh dia pulang dan tinggal di situ supaya ia bisa mengajar orang-orang itu tentang hukum-hukum dewa negeri itu," kata raja.
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.
Maka seorang imam Israel, yang sudah diangkut dari Samaria ke Asyur, pulang dan tinggal di Betel. Di sana ia mengajar rakyat bagaimana seharusnya menyembah TUHAN.
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.
Tetapi orang-orang yang tinggal di Samaria itu tetap membuat berhala-berhala mereka sendiri dan menempatkannya di dalam kuil-kuil yang didirikan oleh orang Israel yang dahulu tinggal di kota itu. Setiap golongan membuat berhalanya sendiri di kota yang mereka diami:
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.
Orang Babel membuat patung Dewa Sukot-Benot, orang Kuta membuat patung Nergal, orang Hamat patung Asima,
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.
orang Awa patung Nibhas dan Tartak, dan orang Sefarwaim mempersembahkan anak-anak mereka sebagai kurban bakaran kepada Dewa Adramelekh dan Anamelekh.
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.
Selain menyembah dewa-dewa itu, mereka juga menyembah TUHAN. Mereka memilih dari antara mereka bermacam-macam orang untuk bertugas sebagai imam dan untuk mempersembahkan kurban di kuil-kuil berhala.
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.
Jadi, mereka menyembah TUHAN, tetapi juga menyembah dewa-dewa mereka sendiri, sesuai dengan adat istiadat negeri asal mereka.
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.
Sampai pada hari ini mereka masih menjalankan adat istiadat mereka. Mereka tidak beribadat kepada TUHAN dan tidak juga mentaati hukum-hukum dan perintah-perintah-Nya yang diberikan-Nya kepada keturunan Yakub, yang dinamakan-Nya juga Israel.
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.
TUHAN sudah membuat perjanjian berikut ini dengan umat Israel, "Jangan beribadat kepada ilah-ilah lain; jangan sujud menyembah mereka atau melayani mereka, atau mempersembahkan kurban kepada mereka.
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.
Hormatilah Aku, TUHAN, yang telah membawa kamu keluar dari Mesir dengan kuasa yang besar; sembahlah Aku dan persembahkanlah kurban kepada-Ku.
37 You must always obey the laws and commands that I [told Moses to] write for you. You must not worship other gods.
Taatilah selalu hukum-hukum dan perintah-perintah yang sudah Kutulis untukmu. Jangan beribadat kepada ilah-ilah lain,
38 And you must not forget the agreement that I made with your ancestors. You must not revere other gods.
dan jangan melupakan perjanjian antara Aku dengan kamu.
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.”
Taatilah Aku, TUHAN Allahmu, maka Aku akan melepaskan kamu dari musuh-musuhmu."
40 But the people [from those foreign nations] would not heed what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to adhere to their old customs.
Tetapi penduduk Samaria itu tidak mau mendengar; mereka tetap berpegang pada adat istiadat mereka.
41 So, they worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
Jadi, mereka menyembah TUHAN, tetapi juga menyembah berhala-berhala mereka. Sampai hari ini pun keturunan mereka masih melakukan hal itu.
