Liber II Regum, 17

1. Anno duodecimo Achaz regis Iudae regnavit Osee filius Ela in Samaria super Israel novem annis.

1. In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah Hoshe'a the son of Elah began to reign in Sama'ria over Israel, and he reigned nine years.

2. Fecitque malum coram Domino, sed non sicut reges Israel, qui ante eum fuerant.

2. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.

3. Contra hunc ascendit Salmanasar rex Assyriorum; et factus est ei Osee servus reddebatque illi tributa.

3. Against him came up Shalmane'ser king of Assyria; and Hoshe'a became his vassal, and paid him tribute.

4. Cumque deprehendisset rex Assyriorum Osee quod rebellare nitens misisset nuntios ad Sua regem Aegypti nec praestaret tributa regi Assyriorum, sicut singulis annis solitus erat, apprehendit eum et vinctum misit in carcerem.

4. But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshe'a; for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

5. Pervagatusque est omnem terram et ascendens Samariam obsedit eam tribus annis.

5. Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Sama'ria, and for three years he besieged it.

6. Anno autem nono Osee cepit rex Assyriorum Samariam et transtulit Israel in Assur posuitque eos in Hala et iuxta Habor fluvium Gozan et in civitatibus Medorum.

6. In the ninth year of Hoshe'a the king of Assyria captured Sama'ria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

7. Factum est enim hoc, cum peccassent filii Israel Domino Deo suo, qui eduxerat eos de terra Aegypti, de manu pharaonis regis Aegypti: coluerunt deos alienos.

7. And this was so, because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods

8. Et ambulaverunt iuxta ritus gentium, quas consumpserat Dominus in conspectu filiorum Israel et regum Israel, qui similiter fecerant.

8. and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs which the kings of Israel had introduced.

9. Et offenderunt filii Israel operibus non rectis Dominum Deum suum et aedificaverunt sibi excelsa in cunctis urbibus suis a turre custodum usque ad civitatem munitam.

9. And the people of Israel did secretly against the LORD their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places at all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city;

10. Feceruntque sibi lapides et palos in omni colle sublimi et subter omne lignum nemorosum

10. they set up for themselves pillars and Ashe'rim on every high hill and under every green tree;

11. et adolebant ibi in omnibus excelsis sicut gentes, quas transtulerat Dominus a facie eorum; feceruntque pessima irritantes Dominum

11. and there they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger,

12. et coluerunt idola immunda, de quibus praecepit Dominus eis, ne facerent hoc.

12. and they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this."

13. Et testificatus est Dominus in Israel et in Iuda per manum omnium prophetarum et videntium dicens: “Revertimini a viis vestris pessimis et custodite mandata mea et praecepta iuxta omnem legem, quam praecepi patribus vestris, et sicut misi ad vos in manu servorum meorum prophetarum”.

13. Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets."

14. Qui non audierunt, sed induraverunt cervicem suam iuxta cervicem patrum suorum, qui noluerunt credere in Dominum Deum suum.

14. But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the LORD their God.

15. Et abiecerunt legitima eius et pactum, quod pepigit cum patribus eorum, et testificationes, quibus contestatus est eos; secutique sunt vanitates et vani facti sunt et secuti sunt gentes, quae erant per circuitum eorum, super quibus praeceperat Dominus eis ut non facerent, sicut et illae faciebant.

15. They despised his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and the warnings which he gave them. They went after false idols, and became false, and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.

16. Et dereliquerunt omnia praecepta Domini Dei sui feceruntque sibi conflatiles duos vitulos et palum et adoraverunt universam militiam caeli servieruntque Baal

16. And they forsook all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves molten images of two calves; and they made an Ashe'rah, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Ba'al.

17. et consecrabant filios suos et filias suas per ignem; et divinationibus inserviebant et auguriis et tradiderunt se, ut facerent malum coram Domino et irritarent eum.

17. And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings, and used divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

18. Iratusque est Dominus vehementer Israel et abstulit eos de conspectu suo, et non remansit nisi tribus Iudae tantummodo.

18. Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight; none was left but the tribe of Judah only.

19. Sed nec ipse Iuda custodivit mandata Domini Dei sui; verum ambulavit in erroribus Israel, quos operatus fuerat.

19. Judah also did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced.

20. Proiecitque Dominus omne semen Israel et afflixit eos et tradidit in manu diripientium, donec proiceret eos a facie sua,

20. And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, and afflicted them, and gave them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

21. ex eo iam tempore, quo scissus est Israel a domo David, et constituerunt sibi regem Ieroboam filium Nabat; separavit enim Ieroboam Israel a Domino et peccare eos fecit peccatum magnum.

21. When he had torn Israel from the house of David they made Jerobo'am the son of Nebat king. And Jerobo'am drove Israel from following the LORD and made them commit great sin.

22. Et ambulaverunt filii Israel in universis peccatis Ieroboam, quae fecerat; non recesserunt ab eis,

22. The people of Israel walked in all the sins which Jerobo'am did; they did not depart from them,

23. usquequo auferret Dominus Israel a facie sua, sicut locutus fuerat in manu omnium servorum suorum prophetarum. Translatusque est Israel de terra sua in Assur usque in diem hanc.

23. until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.

24. Adduxit autem rex Assyriorum de Babylone et de Chutha et de Ava et de Emath et de Sepharvaim et collocavit eos in civitatibus Samariae pro filiis Israel, qui possederunt Samariam et habitaverunt in urbibus eius.

24. And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sephar-va'im, and placed them in the cities of Sama'ria instead of the people of Israel; and they took possession of Sama'ria, and dwelt in its cities.

25. Cumque ibi habitare coepissent, non timebant Dominum. Et immisit eis Dominus leones, qui interficiebant inter eos.

25. And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the LORD; therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

26. Nuntiatumque est regi Assyriorum et dictum: “Gentes, quas transtulisti et habitare fecisti in civitatibus Samariae, ignorant legitima Dei terrae; et immisit eis leones, et ecce interficiunt eos, eo quod ignorent ritum Dei terrae”.

26. So the king of Assyria was told, "The nations which you have carried away and placed in the cities of Sama'ria do not know the law of the god of the land; therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land."

27. Praecepit autem rex Assyriorum dicens: “Ducite illuc unum de sacerdotibus, quos inde captivos adduxistis, et vadat et habitet cum eis et doceat eos legitima Dei terrae”.

27. Then the king of Assyria commanded, "Send there one of the priests whom you carried away thence; and let him go and dwell there, and teach them the law of the god of the land."

28. Igitur cum venisset unus de sacerdotibus his, qui captivi ducti fuerant de Samaria, habitavit in Bethel et docebat eos quomodo colerent Dominum.

28. So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Sama'ria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

29. Et unaquaeque gens fabricata est deum suum; posueruntque eos in fanis excelsis, quae fecerant Samaritae, gens et gens in urbibus suis, in quibus habitabant.

29. But every nation still made gods of its own, and put them in the shrines of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they dwelt;

30. Viri enim Babylonii fecerunt Socchothbenoth, viri autem Chutheni fecerunt Nergel, et viri de Emath fecerunt Asima;

30. the men of Babylon made Suc'coth-be'noth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashi'ma,

31. porro Hevaei fecerunt Nebahaz et Tharthac, hi autem, qui erant de Sepharvaim, comburebant filios suos igne Adramelech et Anamelech diis Sepharvaim.

31. and the Av'vites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sephar'vites burned their children in the fire to Adram'melech and Anam'melech, the gods of Sephar-va'im.

32. Et nihilominus colebant Dominum. Fecerunt autem sibi de medio ipsorum sacerdotes excelsorum et ponebant eos in fanis excelsorum;

32. They also feared the LORD, and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.

33. et, cum Dominum colerent, diis quoque suis serviebant iuxta consuetudinem gentium, de quibus translati fuerant Samariam.

33. So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

34. Usque in praesentem diem morem sequuntur antiquum: non timent Dominum neque custodiunt instituta et iudicium ipsorum et legem et mandatum, quod praeceperat Dominus filiis Iacob, quem cognominavit Israel,

34. To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the ordinances or the law or the commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

35. et percusserat cum eis pactum et mandaverat eis dicens: “Nolite timere deos alienos et non adoretis eos neque colatis et non immoletis eis,

35. The LORD made a covenant with them, and commanded them, "You shall not fear other gods or bow yourselves to them or serve them or sacrifice to them;

36. sed Dominum, qui eduxit vos de terra Aegypti in fortitudine magna et in brachio extento, ipsum timete, illum adorate et ipsi immolate.

36. but you shall fear the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm; you shall bow yourselves to him, and to him you shall sacrifice.

37. Instituta quoque et iudicia et legem et mandatum, quod scripsit vobis, custodite, ut faciatis cunctis diebus; et non timeatis deos alienos.

37. And the statutes and the ordinances and the law and the commandment which he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods,

38. Et pactum, quod percussi vobiscum, nolite oblivisci nec timeatis deos alienos,

38. and you shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods,

39. sed Dominum Deum vestrum timete, et ipse eruet vos de manu omnium inimicorum vestrorum”.

39. but you shall fear the LORD your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies."

40. Illi vero non audierunt, sed iuxta consuetudinem suam pristinam perpetrabant.

40. However they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.

41. Fuerunt igitur gentes istae timentes quidem Dominum, sed nihilominus et idolis suis servientes; nam et filii eorum et nepotes, sicut fecerunt parentes sui, ita faciunt usque in praesentem diem.

41. So these nations feared the LORD, and also served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children's children -- as their fathers did, so they do to this day.