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 Achaz king of Juda, Osee the son of Ela reigned in Samaria over Israel nine years.2 And he did evil before the Lord: but not as the kings of Israel that had been before him.3 Against him came up Salmanasar king of the Assyrians, and Osee became his servant, and paid him tribute.4 And when the king of the Assyrians found that Osee endeavouring to rebel had sent messengers to Sua the king of Egypt, that he might not pay tribute to the king of the Assyrians, as he had done every year, he besieged him, bound him, and cast him into prison,5 And he went through all the land: and going up to Samaria, he besieged it three years.6 And in the ninth year of Osee, the king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria: and he placed them in Hala and Habor by the river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.7 For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharao king of Egypt, and they worshipped strange gods.8 And they walked according to the way of the nations which the Lord had destroyed in the sight of the children of Israel and of the kings of Israel: because they had done in like manner.9 And the children of Israel offended the Lord their God with things that were not right: and built them high places in all their cities from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.10 And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree:11 And they burnt incense there upon altars after the manner of the nations which the Lord had removed from their face: and they did wicked things, provoking the Lord.12 And they worshipped abominations, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do this thing.13 And the Lord testified to them in Israel and in Juda by the hand of all the prophets and seers, saying: Return from your wicked ways, and keep my precepts, and ceremonies, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers: and as I have sent to you in the hand of my servants the prophets.14 And they hearkened not, but hardened their necks like to the neck of their fathers, who would not obey the Lord their God.15 And they rejected his ordinances and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them: and they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.16 And they forsook all the precepts of the Lord their God: and made to themselves two molten calves, and groves, and adored all the host of heaven: and they served Baal.17 And consecrated their sons, and their daughters through fire: and they gave themselves to divinations, and soothsayings: and they delivered themselves up to do evil before the Lord, to provoke him.18 And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from his sight, and there remained only the tribe of Juda.19 But neither did Juda itself keep the commandments of the Lord their God: but they walked in the errors of Israel, which they had wrought.20 And the Lord cast off all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, till he cast them away from his face:21 Even from that time, when Israel was rent from the house of David, and made Jeroboam son of Nabat their king: for Jeroboam separated Israel from the Lord, and made them commit a great sin.22 And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam, which he had done: and they departed not from them,23 Till the Lord removed Israel from his face, as he had spoken in the hand of all his servants the prophets: and Israel was carried away out of their land to Assyria, unto this day.24 And the king of the Assyrians brought people from Babylon, and from Cutha, and from Avah, and from Emath, and from Sepharvaim: and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.25 And when they began to dwell there, they feared not the Lord: and the Lord sent lions among them, which killed them.26 And it was told the king of the Assyrians, and it was said: The nations which thou hast removed, and made to dwell in the cities of Samaria, know not the ordinances of the God of the land: and the Lord hath sent lions among them: and behold they kill them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.27 And the king of the Assyrians commanded, saying: Carry thither one of the priests whom you brought from thence captive, and let him go, and dwell with them: and let him teach them the ordinances of the God of the land.28 So one of the priests who had been carried away captive from Samaria, came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should worship the Lord.29 And every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the temples of the high places, which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities where they dwelt.30 For the men of Babylon made Sochothbenoth: and the Cuthites made Nergel: and the men of Emath made Asima.31 And the Hevites made Nebahaz and Tharthac. And they that were of Sepharvaim burnt their children in fire, to Adramelech and Anamelech the gods of Sepharvaim.32 And nevertheless they worshipped the Lord. And they made to themselves, of the lowest of the people, priests of the high places, and they placed them in the temples of the high places.33 And when they worshipped the Lord, they served also their own gods according to the custom of the nations out of which they were brought to Samaria:34 Unto this day they followed the old manner: they fear not the Lord, neither do they keep his ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and the commandment, which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he surnamed Israel:35 With whom he made a covenant, and charged them, saying: You shall not fear strange gods, nor shall you adore them, nor worship them, nor sacrifice to them.36 But the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power, and a stretched out arm, him shall you fear, and him shall you adore, and to him shall you sacrifice.37 And the ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do them always: and you shall not fear strange gods.38 And the covenant that he made with you, you shall not forget: neither shall ye worship strange gods,39 But fear the Lord your God, and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.40 But they did not hearken, but did according to their old custom.41 So these nations feared the Lord, but nevertheless served also their idols: their children also and grandchildren, as their fathers did, so do they unto this day.