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 V33 V35 V37 V39 V41
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God · Jacob (Israel)
OET-LV And_they_had_walked in_the_customs_of the_nations which YHWH he_had_dispossessed from_face/in_front_of the_people_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) and_the_kings_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) which they_had_done.
OET (OET-RV) and imitating the customs of the people groups who Yahweh had driven out of the country ahead of them. They had also followed their kings in doing evil things.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וַיֵּֽלְכוּ֙ בְּחֻקּ֣וֹת הַגּוֹיִ֔ם
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_had_walked in,the_customs_of the=nations which/who driven_out YHWH from=face/in_front_of sons_of Yisrael and,the_kings_of Yisrael which/who they_had_acquired )
The author is speaking as if the customs of these nations had actually been statutes or laws that they had obeyed. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [and they walked in the customs of the nations]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וַיֵּֽלְכוּ֙ בְּחֻקּ֣וֹת הַגּוֹיִ֔ם
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_had_walked in,the_customs_of the=nations which/who driven_out YHWH from=face/in_front_of sons_of Yisrael and,the_kings_of Yisrael which/who they_had_acquired )
See how you translated the similar expression in 8:18. Alternate translation: [and they followed the same customs as the nations]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
מִפְּנֵ֖י
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_had_walked in,the_customs_of the=nations which/who driven_out YHWH from=face/in_front_of sons_of Yisrael and,the_kings_of Yisrael which/who they_had_acquired )
See how you translated the similar expression in 16:3. Alternate translation: [on account of]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
וּמַלְכֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשֽׂוּ
and,the_kings_of (Some words not found in UHB: and,they_had_walked in,the_customs_of the=nations which/who driven_out YHWH from=face/in_front_of sons_of Yisrael and,the_kings_of Yisrael which/who they_had_acquired )
The author is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You can supply these words from the context if that would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: [and they walked in the statutes of the kings of Israel that they did] or [and they followed the same customs that the kings of Israel followed]
OET-LV And_they_had_walked in_the_customs_of the_nations which YHWH he_had_dispossessed from_face/in_front_of the_people_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) and_the_kings_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) which they_had_done.
OET (OET-RV) and imitating the customs of the people groups who Yahweh had driven out of the country ahead of them. They had also followed their kings in doing evil things.
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.