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.
I det tolvte styringsåret åt Ahaz, kongen i Juda, vart Hosea Elason konge yver Israel, og han rådde i ni år.
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.
Han gjorde det som vondt var i Herrens augo, då ikkje so ille som Israels-kongarne fyre honom.
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.
Mot honom drog assyrarkongen Salmanassar upp. Hosea vart lydkonge under honom og laut leggja skatt åt honom.
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.
Men då assyrarkongen vart vis med at Hosea for med svik, med di han sende bod til egyptarkongen So, og slutta greida ut den årvisse skatten til assyrarkongen, tok assyrarkongen honom til fange og kasta honom i fengsel.
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.
Og assyrarkongen drog upp mot heile landet, og drog upp og kringsette Samaria i tri år.
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.
I niande styringsåret åt Hosea tok han Samaria og førde Israel burt til Assyria og busette deim i Halah, ved Gozanåi Habor, og i byarne i 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.
Soleis gjekk det, av di Israels-borni synda mot Herren, sin Gud, han som hadde ført deim upp frå Egyptarlandet og fria deim ut or handi åt Farao, egyptarkongen; dei ottast andre gudar,
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).
og for etter sed og skikk hjå dei folki Herren hadde drive ut for Israels-borni, og etter dei skikkarne som Israels-kongarne hadde skipa.
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.
Ja, Israels-borni gjorde mangt uhøvelegt mot Herren, sin Gud; dei bygde seg offerhaugar i alle byarne sine, frå det minste vakttårn til fastaste borgi;
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.
dei reiste upp minnesteinar og Astarte-stolpar på kvar ein høg haug og under kvart grønt tre.
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.
På alle haugarne brende dei røykjelse, liksom dei folki Herren hadde drive burt for deim, og dei harma Herren med si illferd.
12 Yahweh warned them many times that they should not worship idols, but they did it anyway.
Dei tente steingudarne, det som Herren hadde sagt dei ikkje måtte gjera.
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].”
Herren vara både Israel og Juda ved alle profetarne og sjåarane sine: «Vend um frå dei vonde vegarne dykkar og haldt mine bod og mine fyreskrifter etter heile den lovi som eg baud federne dykkar, og som eg sende til dykk ved tenarane mine, profetarne!»
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.
Men dei lydde ikkje. Dei var likso hardnakka som federne sine, som ikkje trudde på Herren, sin Gud.
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.
Dei vanda lovarne hans, brydde seg ikkje um den pakti han hadde skipa med federne deira, og dei fyresegnerne han hadde gjeve deim. Dei gjekk etter fåfengde avgudar og for med det som fåfengt er, liksom grannefolki, endå Herren hadde bode deim at dei skulde ikkje fara soleis åt.
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.
Dei vende seg frå alle bodi som Herren, deira Gud, hadde gjeve, og laga seg støypte gudebilæte, tvo kalvar. Dei laga Astarte-stolpar, dei bøygde kne for himmelheren og tente Ba’al.
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.
Attåt dette vigde dei sønerne og døtterne sine i elden, og for med spådomskunster og trollkunster. Dei selde seg til å gjera det som vondt var i Herrens augo, so dei harma honom.
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].
Difor vart Herren ovleg harm på Israel og støytte deim frå seg. Det vart inkje att einast Juda-ætti.
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.
Ikkje heller Juda heldt Herrens, sin Guds bod, men for etter Israels skikkar, som dei hadde skipa seg.
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.
Då støytte Herren frå seg heile Israels-ætti, og tukta deim og gav deim i henderne på røvarar, til dess han kasta deim burt frå si åsyn.
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.
Han hadde rive Israel laus frå Davids hus; dei tok Jerobeam Nebatsson til konge; og Jeroboam fekk Israel til å falle frå Herren og forførde deim til stor synd;
22 And the Israeli people continued to do the evil things that Jeroboam introduced. They did not turn away from those sins,
og israelitarne dreiv på med alle dei synderne Jerobeam gjorde; dei gav deim ikkje upp.
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.
På resten støytte Herren Israel frå seg, som han hadde sagt ved alle tenarane sine, profetarne. Israel laut fara burt frå landet sitt til Assyria. Der er dei den dag i dag.
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.
Assyrarkongen flutte folk frå Babel og Kuta og Avva og Hamat og Sefarvajim, og busette deim i Samaria-byarne i staden for Israels-borni. Dei tok då Samaria i eige og sette bu i byarne der.
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.
Og det hende seg, at i fyrstningi dei budde der, hadde dei ingen age for Herren. Herren sende då løvor som herja millom deim.
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.”
Det vart meldt åt assyrarkongen: «Dei folki som du flutte burt og busette i Samaria-byarne, dei kjenner ikkje rette måten å dyrka landsens gud; difor hev han sendt løvor millom deim; og dei drep folket ned, av di dei ikkje kjenner rette måten å dyrka landsens gud.»
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.”
Assyrarkongen gav då det bodet: «Lat ein av dei burtførde prestarne fara dit heim att og busetja seg der og læra folket å dyrka landsens gud på rette måten!»
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.
Ein av prestarne som var burtførde frå Samaria, kom då og sette bu i Betel. Han lærde deim korleis dei skulde ottast Herren.
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.
Det var nok so at kvart folk laga seg sin gud og sette upp på haugarne i dei husi som Samaria-folki hadde bygt, kvart folk i sin by, der dei hadde busett seg;
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.
folk frå Babel laga seg ein Sukkot-Benot, folk frå Kut ein Nergal, folk frå Hamat ein 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.
avvitarne laga seg ein Nibhaz og ein Tartak, og sefarvitarne brende borni sine i eld for Adrammelek og Anammelek, Sefarvajim-gudarne.
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.
Men dei bar og age for Herren. Dei valde seg ut offerhaug-prestar kvar or sin flokk, og dei ofra for deim i husi på haugarne.
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.
Dei bar age for Herren; men dei tente samstundes sine eigne gudar, etter skikken hjå dei folki som dei var burtførde frå.
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.
Den dag i dag fer dei etter dei same gamle skikkarne sine; dei ber ikkje age for Herren, so dei fer etter sine fyreskrifter og rettar, og etter den lov og det bod som Herren gav borni åt Jakob, han som fekk namnet 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.
Herren gjorde ei pakt og gav deim sovore bod: «Andre gudar skal det ikkje hava age for, og ikkje bøygja kne for deim eller tena deim eller ofra til deim.
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.
Men Herren, som førde dykk upp frå Egyptarlandet med stor kraft og med strak arm, honom skal de bera age for, honom skal de bøygja kne for, honom skal de ofra til.
37 You must always obey the laws and commands that I [told Moses to] write for you. You must not worship other gods.
Og dei fyreskrifter og rettar, og den lov og det bod som han let skriva for dykk - deim skal de taka vare på og halda alle dagar; men de skal ikkje bera age for andre gudar.
38 And you must not forget the agreement that I made with your ancestors. You must not revere other gods.
Den pakti eg gjorde med dykk, må de ikkje gløyma. De må ikkje bera age for andre gudar.
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.”
Nei, ber age for Herren, dykkar Gud, so skal han fria dykk frå alle dykkar fiendar.»
40 But the people [from those foreign nations] would not heed what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to adhere to their old customs.
Men dei vilde ikkje høyra, men for fram på same vis som fyrr.
41 So, they worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
So bar desse folki age for Herren, men tente samstundes gudebilæti sine. Og borni og barneborni deira gjer den dag i dag so som federne deira gjorde.
