2 Re 17
1 L'ANNO duodecimo di Achaz, re di Giuda, Osea, figluolo di Ela, cominciò a regnare sopra Israele, in Samaria; [e regnò] nove anni.
Elah’s son Hoshea began to rule Israel after King Ahaz had ruled Judah for twelve years. Hoshea ruled in Samaria for nine years.
2 E fece quello che dispiace al Signore; non però come gli [altri] re d'Israele, che erano stati davanti a lui.
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.
3 Salmaneser, re degli Assiri, salì contro a lui; ed Osea gli fu fatto soggetto, e gli pagava tributo.
[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.
4 Ma il re degli Assiri scoperse una congiura in Osea; perciocchè egli avea mandati ambasciadori a So, re d'Egitto, e non avea pagato il tributo annuale al re degli Assiri; laonde il re degli Assiri lo serrò, e lo mise ne' ceppi in carcere.
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.
5 E il re degli Assiri salì per tutto il paese, e venne in Samaria, e vi tenne l'assedio tre anni.
Then he [brought the army of] Assyria to Israel, and they attacked everywhere in that land. His army surrounded Samaria [city] for three years.
6 L'anno nono di Osea, il re degli Assiri prese Samaria, e menò gl'Israeliti in cattività in Assiria; e li fece abitare in Hala, ed in Habor, [presso al] fiume Gozan, e nelle città di Media.
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.
7 Or [questo] avvenne, perciocchè i figliuoli d'Israele aveano peccato contro al Signore Iddio loro, il quale li avea tratti fuor del paese di Egitto, di sotto alla mano di Faraone, re di Egitto; ed aveano riveriti altri dii;
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.
8 ed erano camminati negli statuti delle genti, le quali il Signore avea scacciate d'innanzi a loro, e [negli statuti] che i re d'Israele aveano fatti;
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).
9 ed aveano copertamente fatte cose che non [erano] diritte inverso il Signore Iddio loro, e si aveano edificati degli alti luoghi in tutte le lor città, dalle torri delle guardie, fino alle città forti;
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.
10 e si aveano rizzate statue, e boschi, sopra ogni alto colle, e sotto ogni albero verdeggiante.
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.
11 E quivi aveano fatti profumi in ogni alto luogo, come le genti che il Signore avea trasportate via d'innanzi a loro; ed aveano fatte cose malvage, per dispettare il Signore;
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.
12 ed aveano servito agl'idoli, de' quali il Signore avea lor detto: Non fate ciò.
Yahweh warned them many times that they should not worship idols, but they did it anyway.
13 E benchè il Signore avesse protestato ad Israele, ed a Giuda, per tutti i suoi profeti, [e per] tutti i veggenti, dicendo: Convertitevi dalle vostre vie malvage, ed osservate i miei comandamenti ed i miei statuti, seguendo tutta la Legge, la quale io ho comandata a' padri vostri, e la quale io vi ho comandata per li profeti, miei servitori;
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].”
14 non però aveano ubbidito; anzi aveano indurato il lor collo, come i padri loro, che non aveano creduto al Signore Iddio loro;
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.
15 ed aveano sprezzati i suoi statuti, e il suo patto, il quale egli avea contratto coi lor padri; e le protestazioni ch'egli avea fatte a loro stessi; ed erano camminati dietro alla vanità, onde si erano invaniti; e dietro alle genti ch'[erano] d'intorno a loro, delle quali il Signore avea lor comandato, che non facessero come esse;
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.
16 ed aveano lasciati tutti i comandamenti del Signore Iddio loro, e si aveano fatti due vitelli di getto, e de' boschi; ed aveano adorato tutto l'esercito del cielo, ed aveano servito a Baal;
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.
17 ed aveano fatti passare i lor figliuoli, e le lor figliuole, per lo fuoco; ed aveano atteso a indovinamenti, e ad augurii; e si erano venduti a far ciò che dispiace al Signore, per dispettarlo.
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.
18 Perciò, il Signore si adirò grandemente contro ad Israele, e li rimosse dal suo cospetto, [e] non [vi] restò, se non la tribù di Giuda sola.
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].
19 [Ma] anche Giuda non osservò i comandamenti del Signore Iddio suo; anzi camminò negli statuti di que' d'Israele, ch'essi aveano fatti.
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.
20 Perciò, il Signore sdegnò tutta la progenie d'Israele, e li afflisse, e li diede in mano di predatori, finchè li ebbe cacciati via dal suo cospetto.
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.
21 Perciocchè, dopo ch'egli ebbe stracciato Israele d'addosso alla casa di Davide, e ch'essi ebbero costituito re Geroboamo, figliuolo di Nebat, Geroboamo sviò Israele di dietro al Signore, e gli fece commettere un gran peccato.
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.
22 Ed i figliuoli d'Israele camminarono in tutti i peccati che Geroboamo avea commessi, e non se ne rivolsero;
And the Israeli people continued to do the evil things that Jeroboam introduced. They did not turn away from those sins,
23 intanto che il Signore tolse via Israele dal suo cospetto, siccome ne avea parlato per tutti i profeti, suoi servitori; ed Israele fu menato in cattività d'in su la sua terra in Assiria, [ove è stato] infino ad oggi.
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.
24 E IL re degli Assiri fece venir [genti] di Babilonia, e di Cuta, e di Avva, e di Hamat, e di Sefarvaim; e [le] fece abitare nelle città di Samaria, in luogo de' figliuoli d'Israele. Ed esse possedettero Samaria, ed abitarono nelle città di essa.
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.
25 Or da prima che cominciarono ad abitar quivi, [quelle genti] non riverivano il Signore; laonde il Signore mandò contro a loro de' leoni, i quali uccidevano [molti] di loro.
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.
26 Ed egli fu detto al re degli Assiri: Le genti che tu hai tramutate, e fatte abitare nelle città di Samaria, non sanno le leggi dell'Iddio del paese; laonde egli ha mandato contro a loro de' leoni che le uccidono; perciocchè non sanno le leggi dell'Iddio del paese.
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.”
27 Allora il re degli Assiri comandò, e disse: Fatevi andare uno dei sacerdoti che ne avete menati in cattività; a vadasi, ed abitisi là, e quel sacerdote insegni a quelli che vi andranno le leggi dell'Iddio del paese.
[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.”
28 Così uno dei sacerdoti, ch'erano stati menati in cattività di Samaria, venne, ed abitò in Betel, ed insegnò a coloro in qual maniera doveano riverire il Signore.
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.
29 Nondimeno ciascuna di quelle genti si faceva i suoi dii, e li misero nelle case degli alti luoghi, che i Samaritani aveano fatti; ciascuna nazione [li mise] nelle sue città, dove abitava.
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.
30 Ed i Babiloni fecero Succot-benot, e i Cutei Nergal, e gli Hamatei Asima;
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.
31 e gli Avvei fecero Nibhaz e Tartac; ed i Sefarvei bruciavano i lor figliuoli col fuoco ad Adrammelec e ad Anammelec, dii di Sefarvaim.
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.
32 E anche riverivano il Signore; e si fecero de' sacerdoti degli alti luoghi, [presi] di qua e di là d'infra loro, i quali facevano [i] lor [sacrificii] nelle case degli alti luoghi.
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.
33 Essi riverivano il Signore, e insieme servivano a' lor dii, secondo la maniera delle genti, d'infra le quali erano stati trasportati [là].
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.
34 Infino a questo giorno essi fanno secondo i [lor] costumi antichi; essi non riveriscono il Signore, e non fanno nè secondo i loro statuti e costumi, nè secondo la legge e i comandamenti che il Signore ha dati a' figliuoli di Giacobbe, al quale pose nome Israele;
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.
35 co' quali il Signore avea fatto patto, e a' quali avea comandato, e detto: Non riverite altri dii e non li adorate, e non servite, nè sacrificate loro;
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.
36 anzi riverite il Signore, il quale vi ha tratti fuor del paese di Egitto, con gran forza, e con braccio steso; esso adorate, ed a lui sacrificate.
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.
37 Ed osservate di mettere sempre in opera gli statuti, e gli ordinamenti, e la Legge, e i comandamenti, ch'egli vi ha scritti; e non riverite altri dii.
You must always obey the laws and commands that I [told Moses to] write for you. You must not worship other gods.
38 E non dimenticate il patto che io ho fatto con voi; e non riverite altri dii.
And you must not forget the agreement that I made with your ancestors. You must not revere other gods.
39 Ma riverite il Signore Iddio vostro; ed egli vi libererà da tutti i vostri nemici.
Instead, you must revere me, Yahweh, your God. If you do that, I will rescue you from the power [MTY] of all your enemies.”
40 Ma essi non ubbidirono; anzi fecero secondo il loro costume antico.
But the people [from those foreign nations] would not heed what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to adhere to their old customs.
41 Così quelle genti riverivano il Signore, e insieme servivano alle loro sculture. I lor figliuoli anch'essi, e i figliuoli de' lor figliuoli fanno, infino ad oggi, come fecero i lor padri.
So, they worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
