2 Reyes 17
1 A los doce años de Acaz rey de Judá, comenzó a reinar Oséas, hijo de Ela, en Samaria sobre Israel nueve años.
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 hizo lo malo en ojos de Jehová, aunque no como los reyes de Israel, que fueron antes de él.
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 Contra este subió Salmanasar rey de los Asirios, y Oséas fue hecho su siervo, y pagábale presente.
[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 Mas el rey de Asiria halló que Oséas hacía conjuración; porque había enviado embajadores a Sua rey de Egipto, y ya no pagaba presente al rey de Asiria como cada año: y el rey de Asiria le detuvo, y le aprisionó en la casa de la cárcel.
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 Y el rey de Asiria subió contra toda la tierra, y subió contra Samaria, y estuvo sobre ella tres años.
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 A los nueve años de Oséas tomó el rey de Asiria a Samaria, y trasportó a Israel en Asiria: y púsolos en Hala, y en Habor, junto al río de Gozán, y en las ciudades de los 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 Porque como los hijos de Israel pecasen contra Jehová su Dios, que los sacó de tierra de Egipto, de dabajo de la mano de Faraón rey de Egipto, y temiesen a dioses ajenos,
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 Y anduviesen en los estatutos de las gentes que Jehová había lanzado delante de los hijos de Israel, y de los reyes de Israel, que ellos hicieron;
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 Y como los hijos de Israel cubrieron cosas no rectas contra Jehová su Dios, edificándose altos en todas sus ciudades, desde las torres de las atalayas hasta las ciudades fuertes;
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 Y se levantasen estatuas y bosques en todo collado alto, y debajo de todo árbol sombrío,
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 Quemando allí perfumes en todos los altos a la manera de las gentes, las cuales Jehová había traspuesto delante de ellos, y haciendo cosas muy malas para provocar a ira a Jehová.
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 Sirviendo a los ídolos, de los cuales Jehová les había dicho: Vosotros no haréis esto;
Yahweh warned them many times that they should not worship idols, but they did it anyway.
13 Entonces Jehová protestaba contra Israel, y contra Judá, por la mano de todos los profetas, y de todos los videntes, diciendo: Volvéos de vuestros caminos malos, y guardád mis mandamientos y mis ordenanzas, conforme a todas las leyes que yo mandé a vuestros padres, y que os he enviado por mano de mis siervos los 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 Mas ellos no obedecieron, antes endurecieron su cerviz, como la cerviz de sus padres, los cuales no creyeron en Jehová su Dios.
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 Y desecharon sus estatutos, y su concierto, que él había concertado con sus padres, y sus testimonios, que él había protestado contra ellos: y siguieron la vanidad, y fueron hechos vanos: y en pos de las gentes, que estaban al rededor de ellos, de las cuales Jehová les había mandado, que no hiciesen a la manera de ellas.
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 Y dejaron todos los mandamientos de Jehová su Dios, e hiciéronse vaciadizos dos becerros, e hicieron bosques, y adoraron a todo el ejército del cielo, y sirvieron 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 E hicieron pasar a sus hijos y a sus hijas por fuego, y adivinaron adivinaciones, y eran agoreros, y entregáronse a hacer lo malo en ojos de Jehová, provocándole a ira.
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 Y Jehová se airó en gran manera contra Israel, y quitólos de delante de su rostro, que no quedó, sino solo la tribu de Judá.
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 Mas ni aun Judá guardó los mandamientos de Jehová su Dios, antes anduvieron en los estatutos de Israel, los cuales hicieron.
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 Y desechó Jehová toda la simiente de Israel, y afligiólos, y entrególos en manos de saqueadores, hasta echarlos de su presencia.
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 Porque cortó a Israel de la casa de David, e hiciéronse rey a Jeroboam, hijo de Nabat, y Jeroboam rempujó a Israel de en pos de Jehová, e hízolos pecar gran 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 Y los hijos de Israel anduvieron en todos los pecados de Jeroboam, que él hizo; no se apartaron de ellos;
And the Israeli people continued to do the evil things that Jeroboam introduced. They did not turn away from those sins,
23 Hasta tanto que Jehová quitó a Israel de delante de su rostro, como él lo había dicho por mano de todos los profetas sus siervos, e Israel fue traspuesto de su tierra en Asiria hasta hoy.
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 Y trajo el rey de Asiria gente de Babilonia, y de Cuta, y de Ava, y de Emat, y de Sefarvaim, y púsolos en las ciudades de Samaria en lugar de los hijos de Israel; y poseyeron a Samaria, y habitaron en sus ciudades.
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 Y aconteció al principio, cuando comenzaron a habitar allí, que no temiendo ellos a Jehová, Jehová envió contra ellos leones que los mataban.
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 Entonces ellos dijeron al rey de Asiria: Las gentes que tú traspasaste, y pusiste en las ciudades de Samaria, no saben la costumbre del Dios de aquella tierra, y él ha echado leones en ellos, y, he aquí, los matan, porque no saben la costumbre del Dios de la tierra.
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 Y el rey de Asiria mandó, diciendo: Llevád allí a alguno de los sacerdotes que trajisteis de allá, y vayan, y habiten allá, y enséñenles la costumbre del Dios de la tierra.
[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 Y vino uno de los sacerdotes que habían trasportado de Samaria, y habitó en Bet-el, y enseñóles como habían de temer a Jehová.
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 Mas cada nación se hizo sus dioses, y pusiéronlos en los templos de los altos que habían hecho los de Samaria; cada nación en su ciudad donde habitaba.
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 Los de Babilonia hicieron a Soccot-benot, y los de Cuta hicieron a Nergel, y los de Emat hicieron a 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 Los Heveos hicieron a Nebahaz, y a Tartac. Y los de Sefarvaim quemaban sus hijos con fuego a Adramelec y a Anamelec dioses 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 Y temían a Jehová, e hicieron de ellos sacerdotes de los altos, que les sacrificaban en los templos de los altos.
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 Y temían a Jehová, y honraban también a sus dioses, según la costumbre de las gentes, que habían hecho traspasar de allí.
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 Hasta hoy hacen como primero, que ni temen a Jehová, ni guardan sus estatutos, ni sus ordenanzas, ni hacen según la ley y los mandamientos, que mandó Jehová a los hijos de Jacob, al cual puso por nombre 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 Con los cuales Jehová había hecho concierto, y les mandó, diciendo: No temeréis a otros dioses, ni los adoraréis, ni les serviréis, ni les sacrificaréis.
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 a Jehová, que os sacó de tierra de Egipto con potencia grande, y brazo extendido, a este temeréis, a este adoraréis, a este sacrificaréis.
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 Los estatutos, y derechos, y ley, y mandamientos que os dio por escrito, guardaréis, haciéndolos todos los días, y no temeréis dioses ajenos.
You must always obey the laws and commands that I [told Moses to] write for you. You must not worship other gods.
38 Y no olvidaréis el concierto que hice con vosotros, ni temeréis dioses ajenos;
And you must not forget the agreement that I made with your ancestors. You must not revere other gods.
39 Sino a Jehová vuestros Dios teméd, y él os librará de mano de todos vuestros enemigos.
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 Mas ellos no oyeron: antes hicieron según su costumbre antigua.
But the people [from those foreign nations] would not heed what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to adhere to their old customs.
41 Así temieron a Jehová aquellas gentes, y juntamente sirvieron a sus ídolos: y asimismo sus hijos y sus nietos, como hicieron sus padres, así hacen hasta hoy.
So, they worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
