1 No ano duodécimo de Acaz, rei de Judá, começou Oséias, filho de Elá, a reinar em Samaria, e reinou nove anos.
2 Fez o mal à vista de Jeová, contudo não como os reis de Israel que foram antes dele.
3 Contra ele veio Salmaneser, rei da Assíria; Oséias ficou sendo seu servo, e pagava-lhe tributos.
4 O rei da Assíria achou Oséias em conspiração; porque ele tinha enviado mensageiros a So, rei do Egito, e não tinha entrado com o tributo, como fizera de ano em ano: portanto o rei da Assíria o encerrou e o pôs em grilhões numa prisão.
5 Então o rei da Assíria passou por toda a terra, subiu a Samaria e a sitiou três anos.
6 No ano nono de Oséias, tomou o rei da Assíria a Samaria e levou Israel cativo para a Assíria, e pô-los em Hala, junto a Habor, rio de Gozã, e nas cidades dos medos.
7 Assim sucedeu, porque os filhos de Israel tinham pecado contra Jeová seu Deus que os tirou da terra do Egito, de debaixo da mão de Faraó, rei do Egito, e haviam temido a outros deuses,
8 e andando nos estatutos das nações que Jeová expulsou de diante dos filhos de Israel e nos que os reis de Israel estabeleceram.
9 Os filhos de Israel fizeram secretamente contra Jeová seu Deus o que não era reto, e edificaram para si altos em todas as cidades, desde a torre das atalaias até a cidade fortificada.
10 Levantaram para si colunas e aserins sobre todos os outeiros altos e debaixo de todas as árvores frondosas;
11 ali queimavam incenso em todos os altos, como fizeram as nações que Jeová expulsou de diante deles: cometeram ações iníquas para provocarem Jeová à ira,
12 e serviram a ídolos, de que Jeová lhes dissera: Não fareis isso.
13 Todavia Jeová deu testemunho a Israel e a Judá pelo ministério de todos os profetas e de todos os videntes, dizendo: Voltai dos vossos maus caminhos, e guardai os meus mandamentos e os meus estatutos, conforme a lei toda que prescrevi a vossos pais e que vos enviei por meio dos profetas meus servos.
14 Porém não o quiseram ouvir, mas endureceram a sua cerviz, como a de seus pais, que não creram em Jeová seu Deus.
15 Rejeitaram os estatutos e a aliança que fez com seus pais, e os testemunhos que lhes deu; seguiram a vaidade e tornaram-se vãos, e seguiram as nações que estavam ao redor deles, a respeito das quais Jeová lhes ordenara que não fizessem como elas fizeram.
16 Abandonaram todos os mandamentos de Jeová seu Deus, e fizeram para si imagens fundidas de dois bezerros, e fabricaram uma Asera, e adoraram todo o exército do ceú, e serviram a Baal.
17 Também fizeram a seus filhos, e suas filhas passar pelo fogo, e deram-se a adivinhações e encantamentos, e venderam-se para fazer o mal à vista de Jeová, provocando-o à ira.
18 Portanto Jeová muito se irou contra Israel, e os tirou de diante da sua face; e não ficou senão somente a tribo de Judá.
19 Também Judá não guardou os mandamentos de Jeová seu Deus, mas andou nos estatutos que Israel fez.
20 Jeová rejeitou toda a linhagem de Israel, e os afligiu, e os entregou nas mãos dos despojadores, até os ter lançado fora da sua presença.
21 Pois ele rasgara Israel da casa de Davi; e eles fizeram rei a Jeroboão, filho de Nebate: Jeroboão apartou a Israel de Jeová, e fê-lo cometer um grande pecado.
22 Os filhos de Israel andaram em todos os pecados que Jeroboão cometeu (não se apartaram deles),
23 até que Jeová removeu a Israel de diante da sua face, como falou por meio de todos os profetas seus servos. Assim foi Israel transferido da sua terra para a Assíria até o dia de hoje.
24 O rei da Assíria trouxe gente de Babilônia, e de Cuta, e de Ava, e de Hamate, e de Sefarvaim, e pô-la nas cidades de Samaria em lugar dos filhos de Israel; eles possuíram a Samaria e habitaram nas suas cidades.
25 Quando começaram a habitar ali, não temiam a Jeová; portanto Jeová enviou entre eles leões que os matavam.
26 Pelo que disseram ao rei da Assíria: As nações que transferiste e puseste nas cidades de Samaria, não sabem a maneira de servir ao deus da terra; por isso tem enviado entre eles leões, que os matam, porquanto não sabem a maneira de servir ao deus da terra.
27 Então o rei da Assíria deu ordens, dizendo: Levai para lá um dos sacerdotes, que vós de lá trouxestes (que eles vão e habitem ali); e que ele lhes ensine a maneira de servir ao deus da terra.
28 Veio um dos sacerdotes que eles tinham transferido de Samaria e habitou em Betel, e lhes ensinava como deviam temer a Jeová.
29 Todavia cada nação fez para si os seus deuses nas cidades que habitava, e puseram-nos nas casas dos altos que os samaritanos tinham feito.
30 Os de Babilônia fizeram a Sucote-Benote, e os de Cute fizeram a Nergal, e os de Hamate fizeram Asima,
31 e os avitas fizeram a Nibaz e a Tartaque, e os sefarvitas queimavam seus filhos no fogo a Adrameleque, e a Anameleque, deuses de Sefarvaim.
32 Assim temiam a Jeová, e dentre si fizeram sacerdotes dos altos, os quais sacrificavam por eles nas casas dos altos.
33 Eles temiam a Jeová, e serviam aos seus deuses, segundo o costume das nações do meio das quais tinham sido transferidos.
34 Até o dia de hoje seguem os antigos costumes: não temem a Jeová nem fazem segundo os seus próprios estatutos e ordenanças, ou segundo a lei e mandamento que Jeová deu aos filhos de Jacó, a quem chamou Israel;
35 com os quais Jeová fizera aliança, e lhes tinha mandado, dizendo: Não temereis a outros deuses, nem vos prostrareis diante deles, nem os servireis, nem lhes oferecereis sacrifícios:
36 mas sim a Jeová, que vos tirou da terra do Egito com grande poder e com braço estendido, a ele temereis, e diante dele vos prostrareis, e a ele oferecereis sacrifícios.
37 Os estatutos e as ordenanças e a lei e o mandamento que vos deu por escrito, a esses tereis cuidado de os observar para sempre; não temereis a outros deuses.
38 Não vos esquecereis da aliança que fiz convosco, nem temereis a outros deuses;
39 mas temereis a Jeová vosso Deus, e ele vos livrará das mãos de todos os vossos inimigos.
40 Contudo eles não deram ouvidos, mas procederam segundo o seu antigo costume.
41 Assim estas nações temiam a Jeová, e serviam as suas imagens de escultura: como fizeram seus pais, assim fazem também seus filhos, e os filhos de seus filhos, até o dia de hoje.
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.