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.
Nell'anno decimosecondo di Acaz re di Giuda divenne re in Samaria su Israele Osea figlio di Ela, il quale regnò nove anni.
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.
Fece ciò che è male agli occhi del Signore, ma non come i re di Israele che erano stati prima di lui.
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.
Contro di lui marciò Salmanassar re d'Assiria; Osea divenne suo vassallo e gli pagò un tributo.
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.
Poi però il re d'Assiria scoprì una congiura di Osea, che aveva inviato messaggeri a So re d'Egitto e non spediva più il tributo al re d'Assiria, come faceva prima, ogni anno. Perciò il re d'Assiria lo fece imprigionare e lo chiuse in carcere.
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.
Il re d'Assiria invase tutto il paese, andò in Samaria e l'assediò per tre anni.
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.
Nell'anno nono di Osea il re d'Assiria occupò Samaria, deportò gli Israeliti in Assiria, destinandoli a Chelach, alla zona intorno a Cabor, fiume del Gozan, e alle città della Media.
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.
Ciò avvenne perché gli Israeliti avevano peccato contro il Signore loro Dio, che li aveva fatti uscire dal paese d'Egitto, liberandoli dal potere del faraone re d'Egitto; essi avevano temuto altri dei.
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).
Avevano seguito le pratiche delle popolazioni distrutte dal Signore all'arrivo degli Israeliti e quelle introdotte dai re di Israele.
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.
Gli Israeliti avevano proferito contro il Signore loro Dio cose non giuste e si erano costruiti alture in tutte le loro città, dai più piccoli villaggi alle fortezze.
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.
Avevano eretto stele e pali sacri su ogni alto colle e sotto ogni albero verde.
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.
Ivi avevano bruciato incenso, come le popolazioni che il Signore aveva disperso alla loro venuta; avevano compiuto azioni cattive, irritando il Signore.
12 Yahweh warned them many times that they should not worship idols, but they did it anyway.
Avevano servito gli idoli, dei quali il Signore aveva detto: «Non farete una cosa simile!».
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].”
Eppure il Signore, per mezzo di tutti i suoi profeti e dei veggenti, aveva ordinato a Israele e a Giuda: «Convertitevi dalle vostre vie malvage e osservate i miei comandi e i miei decreti secondo ogni legge, che io ho imposta ai vostri padri e che ho fatto dire a voi per mezzo dei miei servi, i profeti».
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.
Ma essi non ascoltarono, anzi indurirono la nuca rendendola simile a quella dei loro padri, i quali non avevano creduto al Signore loro Dio.
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.
Rigettarono i suoi decreti e le alleanze che aveva concluse con i loro padri, e le testimonianze che aveva loro date; seguirono le vanità e diventarono anch'essi fatui, a imitazione dei popoli loro vicini, dei quali il Signore aveva comandato di non imitare i costumi.
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.
Abbandonarono tutti i comandi del Signore loro Dio; si eressero i due vitelli in metallo fuso, si prepararono un palo sacro, si prostrarono davanti a tutta la milizia celeste e venerarono 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.
Fecero passare i loro figli e le loro figlie per il fuoco; praticarono la divinazione e gli incantesimi; si vendettero per compiere ciò che è male agli occhi del Signore, provocandolo a sdegno.
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].
Per questo il Signore si adirò molto contro Israele e lo allontanò dalla sua presenza e non rimase se non la sola tribù di Giuda.
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.
Ma neppure quelli di Giuda osservarono i comandi del Signore loro Dio, ma piuttosto seguirono le usanze fissate da Israele.
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.
Il Signore, perciò, rigettò tutta la discendenza di Israele; li umiliò e li mise in balìa di briganti, finché non li scacciò dalla sua presenza.
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.
Difatti, quando Israele fu strappato dalla casa di Davide, e proclamò re Geroboamo, figlio di Nebàt, questi allontanò Israele dal seguire il Signore e gli fece commettere un grande peccato.
22 And the Israeli people continued to do the evil things that Jeroboam introduced. They did not turn away from those sins,
Gli Israeliti imitarono in tutto il peccato commesso da Geroboamo; non se ne allontanarono,
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.
finché il Signore allontanò Israele dalla sua presenza, come aveva preannunziato per mezzo di tutti i suoi servi, i profeti; fece deportare Israele dal suo paese in Assiria, dove è fino ad oggi.
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.
Il re d'Assiria mandò gente da Babilonia, da Cuta, da Avva, da Amat e da Sefarvàim e la sistemò nelle città della Samaria invece degli Israeliti. E quelli presero possesso della Samaria e si stabilirono nelle sue città.
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.
All'inizio del loro insediamento non temevano il Signore ed Egli inviò contro di loro dei leoni, che ne fecero strage.
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.”
Allora dissero al re d'Assiria: «Le genti che tu hai trasferite e insediate nelle città della Samaria non conoscono la religione del Dio del paese ed Egli ha mandato contro di loro dei leoni, i quali ne fanno strage, perché quelle non conoscono la religione del Dio del paese».
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.”
Il re d'Assiria ordinò: «Mandatevi qualcuno dei sacerdoti che avete deportati di lì: vada, vi si stabilisca e insegni la religione del Dio del paese».
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.
Venne uno dei sacerdoti deportati da Samaria che si stabilì a Betel e insegnò loro come temere il Signore.
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.
Tuttavia ciascuna nazione si fabbricò i suoi dei e li mise nei templi delle alture costruite dai Samaritani, ognuna nella città ove dimorava.
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.
Gli uomini di Babilonia si fabbricarono Succot-Benòt; gli uomini di Cuta si fabbricarono Nergal; gli uomini di Amat si fabbricarono 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.
Quelli di Avva si fabbricarono Nibcaz e Tartach; quelli di Sefarvàim bruciavano nel fuoco i propri figli in onore di Adram-Mèlech e di Anam-Mèlech, dei di Sefarvàim.
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.
Venerarono anche il Signore; si scelsero i sacerdoti delle alture, presi qua e là, e li collocavano nei templi delle alture.
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.
Temevano il Signore e servivano i loro dei secondo gli usi delle popolazioni, dalle quali provenivano i deportati.
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.
Fino ad oggi essi seguono questi usi antichi: non venerano il Signore e non agiscono secondo i suoi statuti e i suoi decreti né secondo la legge e il comando che il Signore ha dato ai figli di Giacobbe, che chiamò Israele.
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.
Il Signore aveva concluso con loro un'alleanza e aveva loro ordinato: «Non venerate altri dei, non prostratevi davanti a loro, non serviteli e non sacrificate a loro,
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.
ma temete il Signore, che vi ha fatti uscire dal paese d'Egitto con grande potenza e con braccio teso: davanti a lui solo prostratevi e a lui offrite sacrifici.
37 You must always obey the laws and commands that I [told Moses to] write for you. You must not worship other gods.
Osserverete gli statuti, i decreti, la legge e il comando che egli vi ha prescritti, mettendoli in pratica sempre; non venererete divinità straniere.
38 And you must not forget the agreement that I made with your ancestors. You must not revere other gods.
Non vi dimenticherete dell'alleanza conclusa con voi e non venererete divinità straniere,
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.”
ma venererete soltanto il Signore vostro Dio, che vi libererà dal potere di tutti i vostri nemici».
40 But the people [from those foreign nations] would not heed what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to adhere to their old customs.
Essi però non ascoltarono: agirono sempre secondo i loro antichi costumi.
41 So, they worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
Così quelle genti temevano il Signore e servivano i loro idoli; i loro figli e nipoti continuano a fare oggi come hanno fatto i loro padri.
