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.
No ano duodécimo de Achaz, rei de Judá, começou a reinar Hoseas, filho de Ela, e reinou sobre Israel, em Samaria, nove anos.
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.
E fez o que parecia mal aos olhos do Senhor, contudo não como os reis de Israel que foram antes dele.
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.
Contra ele subiu Salmanasar, rei da Assyria: e Hoseas ficou sendo servo dele, e pagava-lhe presentes.
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.
Porém o rei da Assyria achou em Hoseas conspiração; porque enviara mensageiros a So, rei do Egito, e não pagava presentes ao rei da Assyria cada ano, como de antes: então o rei d'Assyria o encerrou e aprisionou na casa do cárcere.
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.
Porque o rei da Assyria subiu por toda a terra, e veio até Samaria, e a cercou três anos.
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.
No ano nono de Hoseas, o rei da Assyria tomou a Samaria, e transportou a Israel para a Assyria: e fê-los habitar em Halah, e em Habor, junto ao rio de Gozan, e nas cidades dos medos.
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.
Porque sucedeu, que os filhos de Israel pecaram contra o Senhor seu Deus, que os fizera subir da terra do Egito, de debaixo da mão de faraó, rei do Egito; e temeram a outros deuses,
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).
E andaram nos estatutos das nações que o Senhor lançara fora de diante dos filhos de Israel, e nos dos reis de Israel, que eles fizeram.
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.
E os filhos de Israel fizeram secretamente coisas que não eram retas, contra o Senhor seu Deus; e edificaram altos em todas as suas cidades, desde a torre das atalaias até à cidade forte.
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.
E levantaram estátuas e imagens do bosque, em todos os altos outeiros, e debaixo de todas as árvores verdes.
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.
E queimaram ali incenso em todos os altos, como as nações, que o Senhor transportara de diante deles: e fizeram coisas ruins, para provocarem à ira o Senhor.
12 Yahweh warned them many times that they should not worship idols, but they did it anyway.
E serviram os ídolos, dos quais o Senhor lhes dissera: Não fareis estas coisas.
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].”
E o Senhor protestou a Israel e a Judá, pelo ministério de todos os profetas e de todos os videntes, dizendo: Converte-os de vossos maus caminhos, e guardai os meus mandamentos e os meus estatutos, conforme toda a lei que ordenei a vossos pais e que eu vos enviei pelo ministério de meus servos, os profetas.
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.
Porém não deram ouvidos; antes endureceram a sua cerviz, como a cerviz de seus pais, que não creram no Senhor seu Deus.
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.
E rejeitaram os seus estatutos, e o seu concerto, que fizera com seus pais, como também os seus testemunhos, com que protestara contra ele: e andaram após a vaidade, e ficaram vãos; como também após as nações, que estavam em roda deles, das quais o Senhor lhes tinha ordenado que não fizessem como elas
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.
E deixaram todos os mandamentos do Senhor seu Deus, e fizeram imagens de fundição, dois bezerros: e fizeram um ídolo do bosque, e se prostraram perante todo o exército do céu, e serviram a 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.
Também fizeram passar pelo fogo a seus filhos e suas filhas, e deram-se a adivinhações, e criam em agouros; e venderam-se para fazer o que parecia mal aos olhos do Senhor, para o provocarem à ira.
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].
Pelo que o Senhor muito se indignou sobre Israel, e os tirou de diante da sua face: nada mais ficou, senão só a tribo de Judá.
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.
Até Judá não guardou os mandamentos do Senhor seu Deus; antes andaram nos estatutos de Israel, que eles fizeram.
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.
Pelo que o Senhor rejeitou a toda a semente de Israel, e os oprimiu, e os deu nas mãos dos despojadores, até que os tirou de diante da sua presença.
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.
Porque rasgou a Israel da casa de David, e fizeram rei a Jeroboão, filho de Nebat: e Jeroboão apartou a Israel de após o Senhor, e os fez pecar um grande pecado.
22 And the Israeli people continued to do the evil things that Jeroboam introduced. They did not turn away from those sins,
Assim andaram os filhos de Israel em todos os pecados de Jeroboão, que tinha feito: nunca se apartaram deles.
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.
Até que o Senhor tirou a Israel de diante da sua presença, como falara pelo ministério de todos os seus servos, os profetas: assim foi Israel transportado da sua terra a Assyria até ao dia de hoje.
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.
E o rei da Assyria trouxe gente de Babel, e de Cutha, e de Ava, e de Hamath e Sefarvaim, e a fez habitar nas cidades de Samaria, em lugar dos filhos de Israel: e tomaram a Samaria em herança, e habitaram nas suas cidades.
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.
E sucedeu que, no princípio da sua habitação ali, não temeram ao Senhor: e mandou entre eles o Senhor leões, que mataram a alguns deles.
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.”
Pelo que falaram ao rei da Assyria, dizendo: A gente que transportaste, e fizeste habitar nas cidades de Samaria, não sabe o costume do Deus da terra: pelo que mandou leões entre elas, e eis que os matam, porquanto não sabem o culto do Deus da terra.
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.”
Então o rei d'Assyria mandou dizer: levai ali um dos sacerdotes que transportastes de lá; e vão-se, e habitem lá: e ele lhes ensine o costume do Deus da terra.
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.
Veio pois um dos sacerdotes que transportaram de Samaria, e habitou em Bethel, e lhes ensinou como deviam temer ao Senhor.
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.
Porém cada nação fez os seus deuses, e os puseram nas casas dos altos que os samaritanos fizeram, cada nação nas suas cidades, nas quais habitavam.
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.
E os de Babel fizeram Succoth-benoth; e os de Cutha fizeram Nergal; e os de Hamath fizeram 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.
E os aveus fizeram Nibha e Tartak: e os sepharvitas queimavam seus filhos a fogo, a Adram-melech, e a Anam-melech, deuses de Sepharvaim.
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.
Também temiam ao Senhor: e dos mais baixos se fizeram sacerdotes dos lugares altos, os quais lhes faziam o ministério nas casas dos lugares altos.
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.
Assim que ao Senhor temiam, e também a seus deuses serviam, segundo o costume das nações dentre as quais transportaram aquelas.
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.
Até ao dia de hoje fazem segundo os primeiros costumes: não temem ao Senhor, nem fazem segundo os seus estatutos, e segundo as suas ordenanças, e segundo a lei, e segundo o mandamento que o Senhor ordenou aos filhos de Jacob, a quem deu o nome de 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.
Contudo o Senhor tinha feito um concerto com eles, e lhes ordenara, dizendo: Não temereis a outros deuses, nem vos inclinareis diante deles, nem os servireis, nem lhes sacrificareis.
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.
Mas o Senhor, que vos fez subir da terra do Egito com grande força e com braço estendido, a este temereis, e a ele vos inclinareis, e a ele sacrificareis.
37 You must always obey the laws and commands that I [told Moses to] write for you. You must not worship other gods.
E os estatutos, e as ordenanças, e a lei, e o mandamento, que vos escreveu, tereis cuidado de fazer todos os dias: e não temereis a outros deuses.
38 And you must not forget the agreement that I made with your ancestors. You must not revere other gods.
E do concerto que fiz convosco vos não esquecereis: e não temereis a outros deuses.
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.”
Mas ao Senhor vosso Deus temereis, e ele vos livrará das mãos de todos os vossos inimigos.
40 But the people [from those foreign nations] would not heed what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to adhere to their old customs.
Porém eles não ouviram; antes fizeram segundo o seu primeiro costume.
41 So, they worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
Assim estas nações temiam ao Senhor e serviam as suas imagens de escultura: também seus filhos, e os filhos de seus filhos, como fizeram seus pais, assim fazem eles até ao dia de hoje.
