Liber II Regum, 17

1. anno duodecimo Ahaz regis Juda regnavit Osee filius Hela in Samaria super Israël novem annis

1. In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda, Osee the son of Ela reigned in Samaria over Israel nine years.

2. fecitque malum coram Domino sed non sicut reges Israël qui ante eum fuerant

2. And he did evil before the Lord: but not as the kings of Israel that had been before him.

3. contra hunc ascendit Salmanassar rex Assyriorum et factus est ei Osee servus reddebatque illi tributa

3. Against him came up Salmanasar king of the Assyrians, and Osee became his servant, and paid him tribute.

4. cumque deprehendisset rex Assyriorum Osee quod rebellare nitens misisset nuntios ad Sua regem Ægypti ne præstaret tributa regi Assyriorum sicut singulis annis solitus erat obsedit eum et vinctum misit in carcerem

4. And when the king of the Assyrians found that Osee endeavouring to rebel had sent messengers to Sua the king of Egypt, that he might not pay tribute to the king of the Assyrians, as he had done every year, he besieged him, bound him, and cast him into prison,

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

5. And he went through all the land: and going up to Samaria, he besieged it three years.

6. anno autem nono Osee cepit rex Assyriorum Samariam et transtulit Israël in Assyrios posuitque eos in Ala et in Habor juxta fluvium Gozan in civitatibus Medorum

6. And in the ninth year of Osee, the king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria: and he placed them in Hala and Habor by the river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.

7. factum est enim cum peccassent filii Israël Domino Deo suo qui eduxerat eos de terra Ægypti de manu Pharaonis regis Ægypti coluerunt deos alienos

7. For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharao king of Egypt, and they worshipped strange gods.

8. et ambulaverunt juxta ritum gentium quas consumpserat Dominus in conspectu filiorum Israël et regum Israël quia similiter fecerant

8. And they walked according to the way of the nations which the Lord had destroyed in the sight of the children of Israel and of the kings of Israel: because they had done in like manner.

9. et operuerunt filii Israël verbis non rectis Dominum Deum suum et ædificaverunt sibi excelsa in cunctis urbibus suis a turre custodum usque ad civitatem munitam

9. And the children of Israel offended the Lord their God with things that were not right: and built them high places in all their cities from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

10. feceruntque sibi statuas et lucos in omni colle sublimi et subter omne lignum nemorosum

10. And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree:

11. et adolebant ibi incensum super aras in more gentium quas transtulerat Dominus a facie eorum feceruntque verba pessima inritantes Dominum

11. And they burnt incense there upon altars after the manner of the nations which the Lord had removed from their face: and they did wicked things, provoking the Lord.

12. et coluerunt inmunditias de quibus præcepit Dominus eis ne facerent verbum hoc

12. And they worshipped abominations, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do this thing.

13. et testificatus est Dominus in Israël et in Juda per manum omnium prophetarum et videntum dicens revertimini a viis vestris pessimis et custodite præcepta mea et cærimonias juxta omnem legem quam præcepi patribus vestris et sicut misi ad vos in manu servorum meorum prophetarum

13. And the Lord testified to them in Israel and in Juda by the hand of all the prophets and seers, saying: Return from your wicked ways, and keep my precepts, and ceremonies, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers: and as I have sent to you in the hand of my servants the prophets.

14. qui non audierunt sed induraverunt cervicem suam juxta cervicem patrum suorum qui noluerunt obœdire Domino Deo suo

14. And they hearkened not, but hardened their necks like to the neck of their fathers, who would not obey the Lord their God.

15. et abiecerunt legitima ejus et pactum quod pepigit cum patribus eorum et testificationes quibus contestatus est eos secutique sunt vanitates et vane egerunt et secuti sunt gentes quæ erant per circuitum eorum super quibus præceperat Dominus eis ut non facerent sicut et illæ faciebant

15. And they rejected his ordinances and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them: and they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.

16. et dereliquerunt omnia præcepta Domini Dei sui feceruntque sibi conflatiles duos vitulos et lucos et adoraverunt universam militiam cæli servieruntque Baal

16. And they forsook all the precepts of the Lord their God: and made to themselves two molten calves, and groves, and adored all the host of heaven: and they served Baal.

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

17. And consecrated their sons, and their daughters through fire: and they gave themselves to divinations, and soothsayings: and they delivered themselves up to do evil before the Lord, to provoke him.

18. iratusque est Dominus vehementer Israël et abstulit eos de conspectu suo et non remansit nisi tribus Juda tantummodo

18. And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from his sight, and there remained only the tribe of Juda.

19. sed nec ipse Juda custodivit mandata Domini Dei sui verum ambulavit in erroribus Israël quos operatus fuerat

19. But neither did Juda itself keep the commandments of the Lord their God: but they walked in the errors of Israel, which they had wrought.

20. projecitque Dominus omne semen Israël et adflixit eos et tradidit in manu diripientium donec proiceret eos a facie sua

20. And the Lord cast off all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, till he cast them away from his face:

21. ex eo jam tempore quo scissus est Israël a domo David et constituerunt sibi regem Hieroboam filium Nabath separavit enim Hieroboam Israël a Domino et peccare eos fecit peccatum magnum

21. Even from that time, when Israel was rent from the house of David, and made Jeroboam son of Nabat their king: for Jeroboam separated Israel from the Lord, and made them commit a great sin.

22. et ambulaverunt filii Israël in universis peccatis Hieroboam quæ fecerat non recesserunt ab eis

22. And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam, which he had done: and they departed not from them,

23. usquequo auferret Dominus Israël a facie sua sicut locutus fuerat in manu omnium servorum suorum prophetarum translatusque est Israël de terra sua in Assyrios usque in diem hanc

23. Till the Lord removed Israel from his face, as he had spoken in the hand of all his servants the prophets: and Israel was carried away out of their land to Assyria, unto this day.

24. adduxit autem rex Assyriorum de Babylone et de Chutha et de Hajath et de Emath et de Sepharvaim et conlocavit eos in civitatibus Samariæ pro filiis Israël qui possederunt Samariam et habitaverunt in urbibus ejus

24. And the king of the Assyrians brought people from Babylon, and from Cutha, and from Avah, and from Emath, and from Sepharvaim: and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

25. cumque ibi habitare cœpissent non timebant Dominum et inmisit eis Dominus leones qui interficiebant eos

25. And when they began to dwell there, they feared not the Lord: and the Lord sent lions among them, which killed them.

26. nuntiatumque est regi Assyriorum et dictum gentes quas transtulisti et habitare fecisti in civitatibus Samariæ ignorant legitima Dei terræ et inmisit in eos Dominus leones et ecce interficiunt eos eo quod ignorent ritum Dei terræ

26. And it was told the king of the Assyrians, and it was said: The nations which thou hast removed, and made to dwell in the cities of Samaria, know not the ordinances of the God of the land: and the Lord hath sent lions among them: and behold they kill them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.

27. præcepit autem rex Assyriorum dicens ducite illuc unum de sacerdotibus quos inde captivos adduxistis et vadat et habitet cum eis et doceat eos legitima Dei terræ

27. And the king of the Assyrians commanded, saying: Carry thither one of the priests whom you brought from thence captive, and let him go, and dwell with them: and let him teach them the ordinances 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 who had been carried away captive from Samaria, came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should worship the Lord.

29. et unaquæque gens fabricata est deum suum posueruntque eos in fanis excelsis quæ fecerant Samaritæ gens et gens in urbibus suis in quibus habitabant

29. And every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the temples of the high places, which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities where they dwelt.

30. viri enim babylonii fecerunt Socchothbenoth viri autem chutheni fecerunt Nergel et viri de Emath fecerunt Asima

30. For the men of Babylon made Sochothbenoth: and the Cuthites made Nergel: and the men of Emath made Asima.

31. porro Evei fecerunt Nebaaz et Tharthac hii autem qui erant de Sepharvaim conburebant filios suos igni Adramelech et Anamelech diis Sepharvaim

31. And the Hevites made Nebahaz and Tharthac. And they that were of Sepharvaim burnt their children in fire, to Adramelech and Anamelech the gods of Sepharvaim.

32. et nihilominus colebant Dominum fecerunt autem sibi de novissimis sacerdotes excelsorum et ponebant eos in fanis sublimibus

32. And nevertheless they worshipped the Lord. And they made to themselves, of the lowest of the people, priests of the high places, and they placed them in the temples of the high places.

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

33. And when they worshipped the Lord, they served also their own gods according to the custom of the nations out of which they were brought to Samaria:

34. usque in præsentem diem morem sequuntur antiquum non timent Dominum neque custodiunt cærimonias ejus et judicia et legem et mandatum quod præceperat Dominus filiis Jacob quem cognominavit Israël

34. Unto this day they followed the old manner: they fear not the Lord, neither do they keep his ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and the commandment, which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he surnamed 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. With whom he made a covenant, and charged them, saying: You shall not fear strange gods, nor shall you adore them, nor worship them, nor sacrifice to them.

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

36. But the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power, and a stretched out arm, him shall you fear, and him shall you adore, and to him shall you sacrifice.

37. cærimonias quoque et judicia et legem et mandatum quod scripsit vobis custodite ut faciatis cunctis diebus et non timeatis deos alienos

37. And the ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do them always: and you shall not fear strange gods.

38. et pactum quod percussi vobiscum nolite oblivisci nec colatis deos alienos

38. And the covenant that he made with you, you shall not forget: neither shall ye worship strange gods,

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

39. But fear the Lord your God, and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.

40. illi vero non audierunt sed juxta consuetudinem suam pristinam perpetrabant

40. But they did not hearken, but did according to their old custom.

41. fuerunt igitur gentes istæ timentes quidem Dominum sed nihilominus et idolis suis servientes nam et filii eorum et nepotes sicut fecerunt parentes sui ita faciunt usque in præsentem diem

41. So these nations feared the Lord, but nevertheless served also their idols: their children also and grandchildren, as their fathers did, so do they unto this day.