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.
В двенадцатый год Ахаза, царя Иудейского, воцарился Осия, сын Илы, в Самарии над Израилем и царствовал девять лет.
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.
И делал он неугодное в очах Господних, но не так, как цари Израильские, которые были прежде него.
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.
Против него выступил Салманассар, царь Ассирийский, и сделался Осия подвластным ему и давал ему дань.
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.
И заметил царь Ассирийский в Осии измену, так как он посылал послов к Сигору, царю Египетскому, и не доставлял дани царю Ассирийскому каждый год; и взял его царь Ассирийский под стражу, и заключил его в дом темничный.
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.
И пошел царь Ассирийский на всю землю, и приступил к Самарии, и держал ее в осаде три года.
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.
В девятый год Осии взял царь Ассирийский Самарию, и переселил Израильтян в Ассирию, и поселил их в Халахе и в Хаворе, при реке Гозан, и в городах Мидийских.
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.
Когда стали грешить сыны Израилевы пред Господом Богом своим, Который вывел их из земли Египетской, из-под руки фараона, царя Египетского, и стали чтить богов иных,
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).
и стали поступать по обычаям народов, которых прогнал Господь от лица сынов Израилевых, и по обычаям царей Израильских, как поступали они;
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.
и стали делать сыны Израилевы дела неугодные Господу Богу своему, и построили себе высоты во всех городах своих, начиная от сторожевой башни до укрепленного города,
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.
и поставили у себя статуи и изображения Астарт на всяком высоком холме и под всяким тенистым деревом,
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.
и стали там совершать курения на всех высотах, подобно народам, которых изгнал от них Господь, и делали худые дела, прогневляющие Господа,
12 Yahweh warned them many times that they should not worship idols, but they did it anyway.
и служили идолам, о которых говорил им Господь: “не делайте сего”;
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].”
тогда Господь чрез всех пророков Своих, чрез всякого прозорливца предостерегал Израиля и Иуду, говоря: возвратитесь со злых путей ваших и соблюдайте заповеди Мои, уставы Мои, по всему учению, которое Я заповедал отцам вашим и которое Я преподал вам чрез рабов Моих, пророков.
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.
Но они не слушали и ожесточили выю свою, как была выя отцов их, которые не веровали в Господа, Бога своего;
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.
и презирали уставы Его, и завет Его, который Он заключил с отцами их, и откровения Его, какими Он предостерегал их, и пошли вслед суеты и осуетились, и вслед народов окрестных, о которых Господь заповедал им, чтобы не поступали так, как они,
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.
и оставили все заповеди Господа Бога своего, и сделали себе литые изображения двух тельцов, и устроили дубраву, и поклонялись всему воинству небесному, и служили Ваалу,
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.
и проводили сыновей своих и дочерей своих чрез огонь, и гадали, и волшебствовали, и предались тому, чтобы делать неугодное в очах Господа и прогневлять Его.
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].
И прогневался Господь сильно на Израильтян, и отверг их от лица Своего. Не осталось никого, кроме одного колена Иудина.
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.
И Иуда также не соблюдал заповедей Господа Бога своего, и поступал по обычаям Израильтян, как поступали они.
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.
И отвратился Господь от всех потомков Израиля, и смирил их, и отдавал их в руки грабителям, и наконец отверг их от лица Своего.
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.
Израильтяне отторглись от дома Давидова и воцарили Иеровоама, сына Наватова; и отклонил Иеровоам Израильтян от Господа, и вовлек их в великий грех.
22 And the Israeli people continued to do the evil things that Jeroboam introduced. They did not turn away from those sins,
И поступали сыны Израилевы по всем грехам Иеровоама, какие он делал, не отставали от них,
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.
доколе Господь не отверг Израиля от лица Своего, как говорил чрез всех рабов Своих, пророков. И переселен Израиль из земли своей в Ассирию, где он и до сего дня.
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.
И перевел царь Ассирийский людей из Вавилона, и из Куты, и из Аввы, и из Емафа, и из Сепарваима, и поселил их в городах Самарийских вместо сынов Израилевых. И они овладели Самариею, и стали жить в городах ее.
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.
И как в начале жительства своего там они не чтили Господа, то Господь посылал на них львов, которые умерщвляли их.
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.”
И донесли царю Ассирийскому, и сказали: народы, которых ты переселил и поселил в городах Самарийских, не знают закона Бога той земли, и за то Он посылает на них львов, и вот они умерщвляют их, потому что они не знают закона Бога той земли.
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.”
И повелел царь Ассирийский, и сказал: отправьте туда одного из священников, которых вы выселили оттуда; пусть пойдет и живет там, и он научит их закону Бога той земли.
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.
И пришел один из священников, которых выселили из Самарии, и жил в Вефиле, и учил их, как чтить Господа.
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.
Притом сделал каждый народ и своих богов и поставил в капищах высот, какие устроили Самаряне, - каждый народ в своих городах, где живут они.
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.
Вавилоняне сделали Суккот-Беноф, Кутийцы сделали Нергала, Емафяне сделали Ашиму,
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.
Аввийцы сделали Нивхаза и Тартака, а Сепарваимцы сожигали сыновей своих в огне Адрамелеху и Анамелеху, богам Сепарваимским.
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.
Между тем чтили и Господа, и сделали у себя священников высот из среды своей, и они служили у них в капищах высот.
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.
Господа они чтили, и богам своим они служили по обычаю народов, из которых выселили их.
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.
До сего дня поступают они по прежним своим обычаям: не боятся Господа и не поступают по уставам и по обрядам, и по закону и по заповедям, которые заповедал Господь сынам Иакова, которому дал Он имя Израиля.
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.
Заключил Господь с ними завет и заповедал им, говоря: не чтите богов иных, и не поклоняйтесь им, и не служите им, и не приносите жертв им,
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.
но Господа, Который вывел вас из земли Египетской силою великою и мышцею простертою, - Его чтите и Ему поклоняйтесь, и Ему приносите жертвы,
37 You must always obey the laws and commands that I [told Moses to] write for you. You must not worship other gods.
и уставы, и учреждения, и закон, и заповеди, которые Он написал вам, старайтесь исполнять во все дни, и не чтите богов иных;
38 And you must not forget the agreement that I made with your ancestors. You must not revere other gods.
и завета, который Я заключил с вами, не забывайте, и не чтите богов иных,
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.”
только Господа Бога вашего чтите, и Он избавит вас от руки всех врагов ваших.
40 But the people [from those foreign nations] would not heed what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to adhere to their old customs.
Но они не послушали, а поступали по прежним своим обычаям.
41 So, they worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
Народы сии чтили Господа, но и истуканам своим служили. Да и дети их и дети детей их до сего дня поступают так же, как поступали отцы их.
