2 Reyes 17
1 En el año duodécimo de Acaz, rey de Judá, Oseas, hijo de Ela, se convirtió en rey de Israel en Samaria, y gobernó durante 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 ante los ojos del Señor, aunque no como los reyes de Israel antes que 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 él, subió Salmanasar, rey de Asiria, y Oseas se convirtió en su sirviente y tributario.
[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 Salmanasar descubrió de la conspiración que Oseas estaba tramando en contra de el rey de Asiria, porque había enviado representantes a So, rey de Egipto, y no envió su ofrenda al rey de Asiria, como lo había hecho año tras año: El rey de Asiria lo encerró en la cárcel y lo encadenaron.
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 Entonces el rey de Asiria recorrió toda la tierra y se acercó a Samaria, sitiándola durante 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 En el noveno año de Oseas, el rey de Asiria tomó Samaria y se llevó a Israel a Asiria, colocándolos en Halah y Habor en el río 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 Y vino la ira del Señor sobre Israel, porque habían hecho mal contra él Señor su Dios, que los sacó de la tierra de Egipto de debajo del yugo de Faraón, rey de Egipto, y se convirtió en adorador de otros dioses,
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 vivían de acuerdo con las costumbres de las naciones que el Señor había arrojado de delante de los hijos de Israel así como las costumbres que los reyes de Israel establecieron.
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 los hijos de Israel hicieron en secreto contra el Señor su Dios cosas que no estaban bien, construyendo lugares altos para sí mismos en todos sus pueblos, desde la torre de los vigilantes hasta el pueblo amurallado.
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 Levantaron pilares de piedra y madera en cada colina alta y debajo de cada árbol 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 Quemando incienso en todos los lugares altos, como hicieron aquellas naciones a quienes el Señor arrojó de delante de ellos; hicieron cosas malas, moviendo al Señor a la 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 Y se hicieron siervos de ídolos, aunque el Señor había dicho: No debes hacer esto.
Yahweh warned them many times that they should not worship idols, but they did it anyway.
13 Dio testimonio de Israel y de Judá por todos los profetas y videntes, diciendo: Vuelve de tus malos caminos, cumple mis órdenes y guarda mis reglas, y guíate por la ley que les di a tus padres y enviados por 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 No oyeron, sino que se endurecieron, como sus padres que no creían en el Señor 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 fueron contra sus reglas, y el pacto que hizo con sus padres, y las leyes que les dio; se entregaron a cosas sin sentido ni valor, y se volvieron vanidosos como las naciones que los rodeaban, de quienes el Señor había dicho: No hagas lo que ellos hacen.
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 Volviendo la espalda a todas las órdenes que el Señor les había dado, hicieron para sí mismas imágenes de metal y la imagen de Asera, adoraron a todas las estrellas del cielo y convirtiéndose en siervos de 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 Hicieron pasar a sus hijos y a sus hijas por el fuego, hicieron uso de adivinaciones y encantamientos, y se entregaron a hacer lo malo ante los ojos del Señor, hasta que fue llevado a la 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 Entonces el Señor estaba muy enojado con Israel, y su rostro se apartó de ellos, solo la tribu de Judá mantuvo su lugar.
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 Pero incluso Judá no cumplió las órdenes del Señor su Dios, sino que fueron guiados por las costumbres que Israel había hecho.
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 Entonces, el Señor desechó toda la descendencia de Israel, y les envió problemas, y los entregó en manos de sus atacantes, hasta que los hubo arrojado lejos de su rostro.
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 Israel fue separado de la familia de David, e hicieron a Jeroboam, el hijo de Nebat, rey, quien, alejándolos de las leyes del Señor, los hizo cometer un 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 continuaron con todos los pecados que hizo Jeroboam; 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 que el Señor quitó a Israel de su presencia, como había hablado por medio de todos sus siervos los profetas. Así que Israel fue llevado cautivo a Asiria, hasta el día de 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 Entonces el rey de Asiria tomó hombres de Babilonia, Cuta, Ava, Hamat, y Sefarvaim, y los puso en los pueblos de Samaria en lugar de los hijos de Israel; Así consiguieron a Samaria por su herencia, viviendo en sus pueblos.
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 Cuando vivían allí por primera vez, no adoraban al Señor. Entonces el Señor envió leones entre ellos, causando la muerte de algunos de ellos.
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 dijeron al rey de Asiria: Las naciones que ustedes tomaron como prisioneros y pusieron en las ciudades de Samaria, no conocen el camino del dios de la tierra; por eso envió leones entre ellos, causando su muerte, porque no tienen conocimiento de su camino.
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 Entonces el rey de Asiria dio órdenes, diciendo: Envía allí a uno de los sacerdotes que quitaste, y que viva allí y enseñe al pueblo el camino 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 Entonces, uno de los sacerdotes a quienes habían quitado como prisionero de Samaria regresó y viviendo en Betel, se convirtió en su maestro en la adoración del Señor.
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 Y cada nación se hizo dioses, y los puso en las casas de los lugares altos que los samaritanos habían hecho, cada nación en las ciudades donde vivían.
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 hombres de Babilonia hicieron Sucot-benot, y los hombres de Cuta hicieron Nergal, y los hombres de Hamat hicieron 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 de Ava hicieron Nibhaz y Tartac, y los Sefarvaim dieron a sus hijos para ser quemados en el fuego a Adramelec, y Anamelec.
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 También temían al Señor y se hicieron, de entre ellos mismos, sacerdotes para los lugares altos, que oficiaban ofrendas por ellos en las casas de los lugares 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 Ellos adoraron al Señor, pero honraron a sus dioses como lo hicieron las naciones de las cuales fueron tomados como prisioneros.
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 Por lo tanto, hasta el día de hoy continúan en sus viejos caminos, sin adorar al Señor ni obedecer sus órdenes ni sus caminos ni la ley y la regla que el Señor dio a los hijos de Jacob, a quienes dio el 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 Y el Señor hizo un pacto con ellos y les dio órdenes, diciendo: No debes tener otros dioses; no debes rendirles culto, ni ser sus sirvientes ni hacerles ofrendas:
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 Pero el Señor, que te sacó de la tierra de Egipto con su gran poder y su brazo extendido, es tu Dios, a quien debes adorar y hacer ofrendas:
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 Y las reglas y las órdenes y la ley que él puso por escrito para ti, debes guardarlas y hacerlas para siempre; No debes tener otros dioses.
You must always obey the laws and commands that I [told Moses to] write for you. You must not worship other gods.
38 Y debes guardar en memoria el pacto que he hecho contigo; y no tendrás otros dioses.
And you must not forget the agreement that I made with your ancestors. You must not revere other gods.
39 Y debes adorar al Señor tu Dios; porque es él quien te dará la salvación de las manos de todos los que están contra ti.
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 Pero no prestaron atención, sino que siguieron su camino antiguo.
But the people [from those foreign nations] would not heed what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to adhere to their old customs.
41 Así que estas naciones, adorando al Señor, también eran adoradores de las imágenes que habían hecho; sus hijos y los hijos de sus hijos hicieron lo mismo; como hicieron sus padres, así lo hacen ellos, hasta el día de hoy.
So, they worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
