1 In die twaalfde jaar van Agas, die koning van Juda, het Hos,a, die seun van Ela, in Samar¡a oor Israel koning geword -- nege jaar lank.
2 En hy het gedoen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE, maar nie soos die konings van Israel wat voor hom was nie.
3 Teen hom het Salman,ser, die koning van Assirië, opgetrek, en Hos,a het sy dienaar geword en aan hom belasting betaal.
4 Maar die koning van Assirië het by Hos,a 'n sameswering ontdek, dat hy boodskappers gestuur het na So, die koning van Egipte, en nie aan die koning van Assirië belasting betaal het soos jaar vir jaar nie; daarom het die koning van Assirië hom opgesluit en hom in die gevangenis laat bind.
5 En die koning van Assirië het opgetrek deur die hele land en opgetrek na Samar¡a en dit drie jaar lank beleër.
6 In die negende jaar van Hos,a het die koning van Assirië Samar¡a ingeneem en Israel in ballingskap weggevoer na Assirië en hulle laat woon in Halag en aan die Habor, die rivier van Gosan, en in die stede van Medië.
7 Want die kinders van Israel het gesondig teen die HERE hulle God wat hulle uit Egipteland onder die hand van Farao uit, die koning van Egipte, laat optrek het; en hulle het ander gode gevrees
8 en gewandel volgens die insettinge van die nasies wat die HERE voor die kinders van Israel uit verdryf het, en van die konings van Israel wat dit bewerk het.
9 En die kinders van Israel het heimlik volbring wat nie reg was teenoor die HERE hulle God nie; en hulle het vir hul hoogtes gebou in al hulle stede, van wagtoring af tot versterkte stad.
10 En hulle het vir hul klippilare en heilige boomstamme opgerig op elke hoë heuwel en onder elke groen boom.
11 En hulle het daar offerrook laat opgaan, op al die hoogtes, soos die nasies wat die HERE voor hulle uit weggevoer het, en verkeerde dinge gedoen om die HERE te terg.
12 En hulle het die drekgode gedien waarvan die HERE vir hulle gesê het: Julle mag dit nie doen nie.
13 En die HERE het Israel en Juda gewaarsku deur die diens van elke profeet en elke siener en gesê: Bekeer julle van jul verkeerde weë en onderhou my gebooie, my insettinge, volgens die hele wet wat Ek julle vaders beveel het, en wat Ek deur die diens van my diensknegte, die profete, vir julle gestuur het.
14 Maar hulle het nie geluister nie en hul nek verhard soos die nek van hul vaders wat nie op die HERE hulle God vertrou het nie.
15 En hulle het sy insettinge en sy verbond verwerp wat Hy met hulle vaders gesluit het, en sy getuienisse waarmee Hy hulle gewaarsku het, en agter nietige afgode aan geloop en self nietig geword, en agter die nasies aan wat rondom hulle was, van wie die HERE hulle beveel het om nie soos hulle te maak nie.
16 En hulle het al die gebooie van die HERE hulle God verlaat en vir hulle gegote beelde, twee kalwers, gemaak, ja, 'n heilige boomstam gemaak en gebuig voor die hele leër van die hemel en Ba„l gedien.
17 En hulle het hul seuns en hul dogters deur die vuur laat deurgaan en met waarsêery omgegaan en voortekens verklaar en hulleself verkoop om te doen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE, om Hom te terg.
18 So het die HERE dan baie toornig op Israel geword, sodat Hy hulle van sy aangesig verwyder het; niks het oorgebly nie as net die stam van Juda alleen.
19 Selfs Juda het die gebooie van die HERE hulle God nie gehou nie, maar gewandel in die insettinge van Israel wat hulle gemaak het.
20 Daarom het die HERE die hele geslag van Israel verwerp en hulle verneder en hulle in die hand van rowers oorgegee totdat Hy hulle van sy aangesig weggewerp het.
21 Want Hy het Israel van die huis van Dawid afgeskeur, en hulle het Jerobeam, die seun van Nebat, koning gemaak; en Jerobeam het Israel agter die HERE weggetrek en hulle 'n groot sonde laat doen.
22 En die kinders van Israel het gewandel in al die sondes van Jerobeam wat hy gedoen het, hulle het daar nie van afgewyk nie;
23 totdat die HERE Israel van sy aangesig verwyder het soos Hy gespreek het deur al sy diensknegte, die profete; en Israel is in ballingskap uit sy land weggevoer na Assirië, tot vandag toe.
24 En die koning van Assirië het uit Babel en uit Kuta en uit Awa en uit Hamat en Sefarv im mense ingevoer en laat woon in die stede van Samar¡a, in die plek van die kinders van Israel: hulle het Samar¡a in besit geneem en in sy stede gaan woon.
25 En in die begin van hulle vestiging daar het hulle die HERE nie gevrees nie. Toe stuur die HERE leeus onder hulle, en die het onder hulle sommige gedood.
26 Daarna het hulle aan die koning van Assirië gesê: Die nasies wat u weggevoer en in die stede van Samar¡a laat woon het, ken nie die verpligting teenoor die God van die land nie; daarom het Hy leeus onder hulle gestuur, en kyk, die maak hulle dood, omdat hulle die verpligting teenoor die God van die land nie ken nie.
27 Toe gee die koning van Assirië bevel en sê: Bring een van die priesters daarheen wat julle daarvandaan weggevoer het, dat hulle daar kan gaan woon en dat hy hulle die verpligting teenoor die God van die land kan leer.
28 En een van die priesters wat uit Samar¡a weggevoer is, het gekom en hom in Bet-el gevestig en hulle geleer hoe hulle die HERE moet vrees.
29 Maar hulle het, elke nasie, sy eie god gemaak en in die tempels van die hoogtes opgestel wat die Samaritane gebou het; elke nasie in hul stede waarin hulle woonagtig was:
30 die manne van Babel het Sukkot-Benot gemaak, en die manne van Kut het Nergal gemaak, en die manne van Hamat het As¡ma gemaak,
31 en die Awiete het Nibhas en Tartak gemaak. En die Sefarviete het hulle seuns vir Adramm,leg en Anamm,leg, die gode van Sefarv im, in die vuur verbrand.
32 Hulle het die HERE ook gevrees en vir hulle priesters van die hoogtes uit al hul stande aangestel, wat vir hulle in die tempels van die hoogtes diens doen.
33 Hulle het die HERE gevrees en hulle eie gode gedien volgens die gebruik van die nasies waar hulle vandaan weggevoer is.
34 Tot vandag toe handel hulle volgens die vroeëre gebruike: hulle vrees die HERE nie, en handel ook nie volgens hulle insettinge en volgens hulle gebruike nie, of volgens die wet en volgens die gebod wat die HERE die kinders van Jakob beveel het, aan wie Hy die naam Israel gegee het.
35 Tog het die HERE met hulle 'n verbond gesluit en hulle bevel gegee en gesê: Julle mag geen ander gode vrees of julle voor hulle neerbuig of hulle dien of aan hulle offer nie.
36 Maar die HERE wat julle uit Egipteland laat optrek het met groot krag en met 'n uitgestrekte arm, Hom moet julle vrees en voor Hom buig en aan Hom offer.
37 En die insettinge en die verordeninge en die wet en die gebod wat Hy julle voorgeskrywe het, moet julle altyd sorgvuldig onderhou, maar ander gode mag julle nie vrees nie.
38 En die verbond wat Ek met julle gesluit het, mag julle nie vergeet nie, en julle mag ander gode nie vrees nie.
39 Maar die HERE julle God moet julle vrees, en Hy sal julle verlos uit die hand van al julle vyande.
40 Hulle het egter nie geluister nie en volgens hul vroeër gebruik gehandel.
41 So het hierdie nasies dan die HERE gevrees en hulle gesnede beelde gedien; ook hulle kinders en hulle kindskinders doen soos hulle vaders gedoen het, tot vandag toe.
1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz, king of Judah, Hoshea, the son of Elah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for nine years.
2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, though not like the kings of Israel before him.
3 Against him came up Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant and sent him offerings.
4 But Hoshea's broken faith became clear to the king of Assyria because he had sent representatives to So, king of Egypt, and did not send his offering to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: so the king of Assyria had him shut up in prison and put in chains.
5 Then the king of Assyria went through all the land and came up to Samaria, shutting it in with his forces for three years.
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and took Israel away to Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes.
7 And the wrath of the Lord came on Israel because they had done evil against the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt from under the yoke of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and had become worshippers of other gods,
8 Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.
9 And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town.
10 They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:
11 Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;
12 And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.
13 And he gave witness to Israel and Judah, by every prophet and seer, saying, Come back from your evil ways, and do my orders and keep my rules, and be guided by the law which I gave to your fathers and sent to you by my servants the prophets.
14 And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.
15 And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.
16 And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal.
17 And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.
18 So the Lord was very angry with Israel, and his face was turned away from them: only the tribe of Judah kept its place.
19 (But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.
20 So the Lord would have nothing to do with all the offspring of Israel, and sent trouble on them, and gave them up into the hands of their attackers, till he had sent them away from before his face.)
21 For Israel was broken off from the family of David, and they made Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, king, who, driving them away from the laws of the Lord, made them do a great sin.
22 And the children of Israel went on with all the sins which Jeroboam did; they did not keep themselves from them;
23 Till the Lord put Israel away from before his face, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was taken away from their land to Assyria, to this day.
24 Then the king of Assyria took men from Babylon and from Cuthah and Avva and Hamath and Sepharvaim, and put them in the towns of Samaria in place of the children of Israel; so they got Samaria for their heritage, living in its towns.
25 Now when first they were living there they did not give worship to the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, causing the death of some of them.
26 So they said to the king of Assyria, The nations whom you have taken as prisoners and put in the towns of Samaria, have no knowledge of the way of the god of the land: so he has sent lions among them, causing their death, because they have no knowledge of his way.
27 Then the king of Assyria gave orders, saying, Send there one of the priests whom you took away, and let him be living there and teaching the people the way of the god of the land.
28 So one of the priests whom they had taken away as a prisoner from Samaria came back, and, living in Beth-el, became their teacher in the worship of the Lord.
29 And every nation made gods for themselves, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the towns where they were living.
30 The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
31 The Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites gave their children to be burned in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
32 So they went on worshipping the Lord, and made for themselves, from among all the people, priests for the high places, to make offerings for them in the houses of the high places.
33 They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners.
34 So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;
35 And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:
36 But the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt with his great power and his outstretched arm, he is your God, to whom you are to give worship and make offerings:
37 And the rules and the orders and the law which he put in writing for you, you are to keep and do for ever; you are to have no other gods.
38 And you are to keep in memory the agreement which I have made with you; and you are to have no other gods.
39 And you are to give worship to the Lord your God; for it is he who will give you salvation from the hands of all who are against you.
40 But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.
41 So these nations, worshipping the Lord, still were servants to the images they had made; their children and their children's children did the same; as their fathers did, so do they, to this day.