ULT 2 KI Chapter 17

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17 In the year of 12 to Ahaz, the king of Judah, Hoshea, the son of Elah, reigned in Samaria over Israel, 9 years. 2 And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, only not like the kings of Israel who were to his face. 3 Shalmaneser, the king of Assyria, came up against him, and Hoshea became a servant to him, and he paid tribute to him. 4 And the king of Assyria found a conspiracy in Hoshea, 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 shut him up and bound him in a house of imprisonment. 5 Now the king of Assyria came up against all of the land, and he came up to Samaria, and he besieged against it for three years. 6 In the year of nine to Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he exiled Israel to Assyria. And he settled them in Halah and on the 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, the one having brought them up from the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. And they feared other gods, 8 and they walked in the statutes of the nations that Yahweh drove out from the face of the sons of Israel, and the kings of Israel that they did. 9 And the sons of Israel covered things against Yahweh their God that were not thus. For they built for themselves high places in all of their cities, from a tower of watchmen to a city of fortification. 10 And they set up for themselves pillars and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree. 11 And they burned incense there in all of the high places, like the nations that Yahweh had exiled from their faces. And they did evil things, making Yahweh angry. 12 And they served idols, about which Yahweh had said to them, “You shall 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 that I commanded your fathers and that I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.” 14 But they did not listen, and they stiffened their neck, like the neck of their fathers who did not trust in Yahweh their God. 15 And they rejected his statutes and his covenant that he had cut with their fathers and his testimonies that he testified against them. And they walked after vapor, and they became vapor, and after the nations that were around them, about whom Yahweh had commanded them not to act like them. 16 And they forsook all of the commandments of Yahweh their God, and they made for themselves a molded image, two calves. And they made an Asherah, and they prostrated themselves to the whole army of the heavens, and they served Baal. 17 And they made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire. And they divined divinations, and they observed signs. And they sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh, making him angry. 18 And Yahweh was exceedingly enraged at Israel, and he removed them away from his face. None 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 did. 20 And Yahweh rejected all of 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 of 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 of his servants the prophets. And Israel went into exile away from its land to Assyria, to 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, at the beginning of their settling there, they did not fear Yahweh. And Yahweh sent lions among them, and they were killing among them. 26 And they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations that you exiled and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the custom of the God of the land. And he has sent lions against them, and behold them, killing them because they are not knowing the custom of the God of the land.”

27 And the king of Assyria commanded, saying, “Make go there one from the priests whom you exiled from there. And let them go and settle there, and let him teach them the custom of the God of the land.” 28 And one from the priests whom they had exiled from Samaria came, and he settled in Bethel. And he was teaching them how they should fear Yahweh. 29 And they were making, a nation, a nation, its gods, and they put them in the house of the high places that the Samaritans had made, a nation, a 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 Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvim. 32 And they were fearing Yahweh, but they made for themselves priests of high places from their extremities, and they were making sacrifices to them in the house of the high places. 33 They were fearing Yahweh, but they were serving their gods according to the custom of the nations from which they had 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 judgment or according to the law or according to the commandment that Yahweh commanded the sons of Jacob, whose name he made Israel. 35 For Yahweh had cut a covenant with them, and he had commanded them, saying, “You shall not fear other gods, and you shall not prostrate yourselves to them, and you shall not serve them, and you shall not sacrifice to them, 36 except Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm. You shall fear him, and you shall prostrate yourselves to him, and you shall sacrifice to him. 37 And the statutes and the judgments and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you shall be careful to do all of the days, and you shall not fear other gods. 38 And you shall not forget the covenant that I cut with you, and you shall not fear other gods, 39 except you shall fear Yahweh your God, and he, he will deliver you from the hand of all of your enemies.” 40 But they are not careful, but rather they are acting according to their first custom. 41 For these nations are fearing Yahweh, but they are serving their idols. Both their sons and the sons of their sons, just as their fathers acted, they are acting to this day.

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ULT 2 KI Chapter 17

ULT 2 KI Chapter 17