InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse 2 Ki C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25
2 Ki 17 V1 V3 V5 V7 V9 V11 V13 V15 V17 V19 V21 V23 V25 V27 V29 V31 V35 V37 V39 V41
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
OET-LV DOM YHWH they_were fearing and_DOM gods_of_their_own they_were serving according_to_the_custom_of the_nations which people_had_taken_into_exile DOM_them from_there.
OET (OET-RV) So they were worshipping Yahweh along with their own gods—they’d brought those customs with them from the countries they’d been exiled from
Note 1 topic: writing-pronouns
הִגְל֥וּ אֹתָ֖ם
deported DOM=them
The pronoun they refers to the Assyrians. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: [the Assyrians had exiled them]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicitinfo
מִשָּֽׁם
(Some words not found in UHB: DOM YHWH they_were feared and=DOM gods_of,their_own they_were served according,to_the_custom_of the=nations which/who deported DOM=them from=there )
It might seem that this expression contains extra information that would not be natural to express in your language. If so, you do not need to represent it explicitly in your translation.
OET-LV DOM YHWH they_were fearing and_DOM gods_of_their_own they_were serving according_to_the_custom_of the_nations which people_had_taken_into_exile DOM_them from_there.
OET (OET-RV) So they were worshipping Yahweh along with their own gods—they’d brought those customs with them from the countries they’d been exiled from
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.