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ULT 2KI Chapter 17

17 In the 12th year of Ahaz the king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah became king in Samaria over Israel—nine years. 2 And he did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, only not as the kings of Israel who were to his face. 3 Shalmaneser the king of Assyria went up against him, and Hoshea became a servant for him, and he brought back tribute for him. 4 And the king of Assyria found in Hoshea a conspiracy, that he had sent messengers to So the king of Egypt, and he had not brought up tribute to the king of Assyria, as year by year. And the king of Assyria arrested him, and he bound him in a house of imprisonment. 5 And the king of Assyria went up against all the land, and he went up to Samaria, and he besieged against it for three years. 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he exiled Israel to Assyria. And he settled them in Halah and on Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of Media.

7 And it happened because the sons of Israel sinned against Yahweh their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt. And they had feared other gods, 8 and they walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh drove out from the face of the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel that they did. 9 And the sons of Israel did things secretly that were not right against Yahweh, their God. And they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from a tower of watchmen to a fortified city. 10 And they stood up for themselves pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. 11 And they burned incense there in all the high places, like the nations that Yahweh exiled from their faces. And they did evil things to make Yahweh angry. 12 And they the served idols, which Yahweh said to them, “You will not do this thing.” 13 And Yahweh warned Israel and Judah by the hand of all of his prophets, every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments, my statutes, according to all of the Law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by the hand of my servants, the prophets.” 14 But they did not listen, and they hardened their necks like the necks of their fathers who did not trust in Yahweh, their God. 15 And they rejected his statutes and his covenant that he cut with their fathers and his testimonies that he warned them. And they walked after what was empty, and they became empty, and after the nations that were around them, whom Yahweh had commanded them not to act like them. 16 And they abadoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and they made a molten image for themselves—two calves. And they made an Asherah pole, and they prostrated themselves to all the host of the heavens, and they served the Baal. 17 And they made their sons and their daughters pass through in the fire. And they divined divinations, and they sought omens. And they sold themselves by doing what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh to make him angry. 18 And Yahweh was exceedingly enraged at Israel, and he removed them away from his face. Not one was left—only the tribe of Judah alone.

19 Even Judah did not keep the commandments of Yahweh their God. And they walked in the statutes of Israel that they made. 20 And Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and he afflicted them, and he gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he cast them away from his face. 21 For he tore Israel away from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel away from after Yahweh, and he made them sin a great sin. 22 And the sons of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam, that he did. They did not turn away from it, 23 until Yahweh removed Israel away from his face, according to what he had spoken by the hand of all his servants, the prophets. And Israel went into exile away from its land to Assyria, until this day.

24 And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon and from Kuthah and from Avva and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and he settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel. And they possessed Samaria, and they lived in its cities. 25 And it happened, in the beginning of their living there, they did not fear Yahweh. And Yahweh sent the lions among them, and they were killing among them. 26 And they said to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations that you exiled and you settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the custom of the God of the land. And he has sent the lions against them, and look at them—killing them because they are not knowing the custom of the God of the land.”

27 And the king of Assyria commanded, saying, “Cause one from the priests whom you exiled from there to go to there, and they will go, and they will settle there. And he will teach them the custom of the God of the land.” 28 And one from the priests whom they exiled from Samaria came, and he settled in Bethel. And he was teaching them how they should fear Yahweh. 29 And they were making, nation by nation, its gods, and they put them in the house of the high places that the Samaritans had made, nation by nation, in their cities where they were settling there. 30 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-Benoth, and the men of Kuthah made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, 31 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak. And the Sepharvites were burning their sons in the fire to Adrammelek and Anammelek the gods of Sepharvim. 32 And they were fearing Yahweh, but they made for themselves priests of high places from their whole people, and they were making sacrifices for them in the house of the high places. 33 Yahweh they were fearing, but their gods they were serving, according to the custom of the nations that exiled them from there.

34 To this day, they are acting according to the first customs. They are not fearing Yahweh, and they are not acting according to their statutes or according to their custom or according to the law or according to the commandment that Yahweh commanded the sons of Jacob, whom he set his name as Israel. 35 And Yahweh had cut with them a covenant, and he had commanded them saying, “You will not fear other gods, and you will not prostrate yourselves to them, and you will not serve them, and you will not sacrifice to them. 36 except only Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm—him you will fear, and to him you will prostrate yourselves, and to him you will sacrifice. 37 And the statutes and the customs and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you will take care to do all the days, and you must not fear other gods. 38 And the covenant that I cut with you, you will not forget, and you will not fear other gods, 39 except only Yahweh your God you will fear, and he himself will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies.” 40 But they do not take care, but rather according to their first custom they are acting. 41 And these nations are fearing Yahweh, but their idols they are serving. Also, their sons and the sons of their sons—just as their fathers acted, they are acting to this day.

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