2 Reis 17
1 No décimo segundo ano de Acaz, rei de Judá, Oséias, filho de Elá, começou a reinar em Samaria sobre Israel por nove anos.
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 Ele fez o que era mau aos olhos de Iavé, mas não como os reis de Israel que foram antes dele.
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 Shalmaneser, rei da Assíria, veio contra ele; e Oséias tornou-se seu servo, e lhe trouxe 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 O rei da Assíria descobriu uma conspiração em Oséias; pois ele havia enviado mensageiros para So, rei do Egito, e não ofereceu nenhum tributo ao rei da Assíria, como ele havia feito ano após ano. Por isso, o rei da Assíria o apreendeu e o amarrou na prisão.
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 Então o rei da Assíria subiu por toda a terra, foi até Samaria, e a sitiou três anos.
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 No nono ano de Oséias, o rei da Assíria tomou Samaria e levou Israel para a Assíria, e os colocou em Halah, e no Habor, o rio de Gozan, e nas cidades dos Medos.
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 Foi assim porque os filhos de Israel tinham pecado contra Javé seu Deus, que os tirou da terra do Egito sob a mão do Faraó, rei do Egito, e temeram outros deuses,
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 e andaram nos estatutos das nações que Javé expulsou de diante dos filhos de Israel, e dos reis de Israel, que eles fizeram.
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 Os filhos de Israel fizeram secretamente coisas que não eram corretas contra Javé seu Deus; e construíram lugares altos para si mesmos em todas as suas cidades, desde a torre dos guardas até a cidade fortificada;
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 ergueram para si mesmos pilares e varas de Asera em cada colina alta e debaixo de cada árvore verde;
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 lá queimaram incenso em todos os lugares altos, como as nações que Javé levou antes deles; e fizeram coisas más para provocar Javé à ira;
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 e serviram ídolos, dos quais Javé lhes disse: “Não fareis isto”.”
Yahweh warned them many times that they should not worship idols, but they did it anyway.
13 No entanto, Javé testemunhou a Israel e a Judá, por cada profeta e por cada vidente, dizendo: “Convertei-vos de vossos maus caminhos, e guardai meus mandamentos e meus estatutos, de acordo com toda a lei que ordenei a vossos pais, e que vos enviei por meus servos, os profetas”.
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 Notwithstanding, eles não quiseram ouvir, mas endureceram seu pescoço como o pescoço de seus pais que não acreditavam em Yahweh, seu Deus.
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 Rejeitaram seus estatutos e seu pacto que ele fez com seus pais, e seus testemunhos que ele lhes testemunhou; e seguiram a vaidade, e tornaram-se vaidosos, e seguiram as nações que estavam ao seu redor, sobre as quais Javé lhes ordenara que não fizessem como eles.
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 Eles abandonaram todos os mandamentos de Iavé seu Deus, e fizeram imagens fundidas para si mesmos, mesmo dois bezerros, e fizeram um Asherah, e adoraram todo o exército do céu, e serviram 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 Eles fizeram seus filhos e suas filhas passarem pelo fogo, usaram adivinhações e encantamentos, e venderam-se para fazer o que era mau aos olhos de Iavé, para provocá-lo à raiva.
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 Portanto, Javé ficou muito zangado com Israel, e os tirou de sua vista. Não havia mais ninguém além da tribo de Judá apenas.
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 Também Judá não guardou os mandamentos de Javé seu Deus, mas caminhou nos estatutos de Israel que eles fizeram.
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 Javé rejeitou toda a descendência de Israel, afligiu-os e os entregou nas mãos de invasores, até que os expulsou de sua vista.
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 Pois ele arrancou Israel da casa de Davi; e eles fizeram de Jeroboão o filho de Nebate rei; e Jeroboão expulsou Israel de seguir a Iavé, e os fez pecar um grande pecado.
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 Os filhos de Israel caminharam em todos os pecados de Jeroboão que ele fez; não se afastaram deles
And the Israeli people continued to do the evil things that Jeroboam introduced. They did not turn away from those sins,
23 até que Javé tirou Israel de sua vista, como ele disse por todos os seus servos, os profetas. Então Israel foi levado de sua própria terra para a Assíria até os dias de hoje.
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 O rei da Assíria trouxe pessoas da Babilônia, de Cuthah, de Avva, e de Hamath e Sefarvaim, e as colocou nas cidades de Samaria ao invés das crianças de Israel; e elas possuíam Samaria e viviam em suas cidades.
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 Então foi, no início de sua residência lá, que eles não temiam Yahweh. Portanto, Javé enviou leões entre eles, o que matou alguns deles.
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 Portanto, eles falaram ao rei da Assíria, dizendo: “As nações que vocês levaram e colocaram nas cidades de Samaria não conhecem a lei do deus da terra”. Por isso ele enviou leões entre eles; e eis que os matam, porque não conhecem a lei do deus da terra”.
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 Então o rei da Assíria ordenou, dizendo: “Levai ali um dos sacerdotes que de lá trouxestes; e deixai-o ir e habitar ali, e deixai-o ensinar-lhes a lei do deus da terra”.
[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 Então um dos sacerdotes que eles haviam levado de Samaria veio e viveu em Betel, e lhes ensinou como deveriam temer a Iavé.
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 However cada nação fez seus próprios deuses e os colocou nas casas dos lugares altos que os samaritanos tinham feito, cada nação em suas cidades em que viviam.
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 Os homens da Babilônia fizeram Succoth Benoth, e os homens de Cuth fizeram Nergal, e os homens de Hamath fizeram Ashima,
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 os Avvitas fizeram Nibhaz e Tartak; e os Sefarvitas queimaram seus filhos no fogo a Adrammelech e Anammelech, os deuses de 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 Então eles temiam Yahweh, e também fizeram entre si sacerdotes dos altos lugares para si, que se sacrificaram por eles nas casas dos altos lugares.
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 Eles temiam a Iavé, e também serviam a seus próprios deuses, depois dos caminhos das nações das quais haviam sido transportados.
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 Até hoje, eles fazem o que faziam antes. Eles não temem a Javé, e não seguem os estatutos, ou as ordenanças, ou a lei, ou o mandamento que Javé ordenou aos filhos de Jacó, a quem deu o nome de Israel;
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 com quem Javé fez um pacto e os ordenou, dizendo: “Não temereis outros deuses, nem vos inclinareis diante deles, nem os servireis, nem lhes sacrificareis”;
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 mas temereis a Javé, que vos tirou da terra do Egito com grande poder e com um braço estendido, e vos inclinareis diante dele, e lhe sacrificareis”.
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 Os estatutos e as ordenanças, e a lei e o mandamento que ele escreveu para vós, observareis para fazer sempre mais. Não temerás outros deuses.
You must always obey the laws and commands that I [told Moses to] write for you. You must not worship other gods.
38 Não vos esquecereis do pacto que fiz convosco. Não temerás os outros deuses.
And you must not forget the agreement that I made with your ancestors. You must not revere other gods.
39 Mas temerás a Javé teu Deus, e ele te livrará da mão de todos os teus inimigos”.
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 Entretanto, eles não ouviram, mas fizeram o que fizeram antes.
But the people [from those foreign nations] would not heed what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to adhere to their old customs.
41 Então estas nações temiam Yahweh, e também serviram suas imagens gravadas. Seus filhos fizeram o mesmo, assim como os filhos de seus filhos. Eles fazem como seus pais fizeram até hoje.
So, they worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
