2 Raja-raja 17
1 Pada tahun kedua belas pemerintahan Raja Ahas atas Yehuda, Hosea anak Ela menjadi raja Israel, dan ia memerintah di Samaria sembilan tahun lamanya.
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 Ia berdosa kepada TUHAN, tetapi dosanya tidak sebanyak dosa raja-raja Israel yang memerintah sebelumnya.
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, though not like the kings of Israel before him.
3 Ia diperangi dan ditaklukkan oleh Salmaneser raja Asyur, sehingga setiap tahun ia harus membayar upeti kepadanya.
Against him came up Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant and sent him offerings.
4 Tetapi pada suatu ketika, Hosea mengirim utusan kepada So raja Mesir untuk minta bantuannya. Lalu Hosea berhenti membayar upeti tahunan kepada Asyur. Ketika Salmaneser mengetahui tentang perbuatan Hosea itu, ia menangkap Hosea dan memasukkannya ke dalam penjara.
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 Kemudian Salmaneser raja Asyur menyerang Israel dan mengepung Samaria. Pada tahun ketiga dari pengepungan itu,
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 --yang merupakan tahun kesembilan pemerintahan Hosea--Salmaneser merebut Samaria. Lalu orang Israel diangkutnya sebagai tawanan ke Asyur. Sebagian dari mereka ditempatkannya di kota Halah, sebagian di dekat Sungai Habor di wilayah Gozan, dan sebagian lagi di kota-kota di negeri Madai.
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 Samaria jatuh karena orang Israel berdosa kepada TUHAN, Allah mereka, yang telah menyelamatkan mereka dari raja Mesir, dan membawa mereka keluar dari negeri itu. Mereka menyembah ilah-ilah lain
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 dan mengikuti kebiasaan bangsa-bangsa yang telah diusir TUHAN pada waktu bangsa Israel maju memerangi bangsa-bangsa itu. Bangsa Israel menuruti adat istiadat yang ditetapkan oleh raja-raja Israel,
Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.
9 dan melakukan hal-hal yang tidak diperkenankan oleh TUHAN, Allah mereka. Mereka mendirikan tempat-tempat penyembahan dewa di semua kota mereka, baik di kota kecil maupun di kota besar.
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 Di atas setiap bukit, dan di bawah setiap pohon yang rindang, mereka mendirikan tugu-tugu dan patung-patung Dewi Asyera.
They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:
11 Mereka juga membakar dupa pada semua mezbah untuk dewa, seperti kebiasaan bangsa-bangsa yang telah diusir TUHAN dari negeri Kanaan. Mereka menyembah berhala, meskipun TUHAN telah melarangnya. Segala perbuatan mereka yang jahat membangkitkan kemarahan TUHAN.
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;
And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.
13 TUHAN mengirim utusan-utusan dan nabi-nabi-Nya kepada umat Israel dan Yehuda untuk menyampaikan peringatan ini: "Berhentilah berbuat jahat dan taatilah segala perintah dan hukum yang Kuberikan kepada leluhurmu dan kepadamu melalui para nabi, hamba-hamba-Ku itu."
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 Tetapi Israel dan Yehuda tidak mau mendengar. Mereka keras kepala seperti leluhur mereka yang tidak percaya kepada TUHAN, Allah mereka.
And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.
15 Israel dan Yehuda tidak mau mentaati perintah-perintah TUHAN dan tidak setia kepada perjanjian yang telah dibuat-Nya dengan leluhur mereka. Mereka tidak menghiraukan teguran-teguran-Nya, melainkan beribadat kepada berhala-berhala yang tak berguna, sehingga mereka sendiri pun menjadi tidak berguna. Mereka mengikuti teladan bangsa-bangsa di sekeliling mereka, meskipun TUHAN telah melarangnya.
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 Mereka melanggar semua hukum TUHAN, Allah mereka, dan membuat dua sapi dari logam untuk disembah. Mereka membuat patung Dewi Asyera, menyembah bintang-bintang dan beribadat kepada Dewa Baal.
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 Mereka mempersembahkan anak-anak mereka sebagai kurban bakaran kepada dewa. Mereka memakai ilmu gaib dan meminta petunjuk dari dukun-dukun yang dapat berhubungan dengan roh-roh. Mereka begitu giat melakukan hal-hal yang tidak menyenangkan hati TUHAN
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 sehingga Ia marah sekali kepada mereka dan tidak lagi memperhatikan mereka. Ia membuang mereka dari tanah yang diberikan-Nya kepada mereka; yang tertinggal hanyalah kerajaan Yehuda.
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 Orang-orang Yehuda pun tidak mentaati hukum-hukum TUHAN, Allah mereka. Mereka mengikuti kebiasaan-kebiasaan orang Israel,
(But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.
20 maka TUHAN tidak lagi mengakui seluruh umat Israel. Ia menghukum dan menyerahkan mereka kepada musuh-musuh mereka yang kejam. Ia tidak lagi memperhatikan mereka, melainkan membuang mereka dari tanah yang diberikan-Nya kepada mereka.
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 Setelah TUHAN memisahkan Israel dari Yehuda, orang Israel mengangkat Yerobeam anak Nebat menjadi raja mereka. Lalu Yerobeam membuat mereka meninggalkan TUHAN dan melakukan dosa-dosa yang besar.
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 Mereka mengikuti teladan Yerobeam dan tetap melakukan semua dosa yang diperbuatnya,
And the children of Israel went on with all the sins which Jeroboam did; they did not keep themselves from them;
23 sehingga akhirnya TUHAN tidak lagi memperhatikan mereka, melainkan membuang mereka dari tanah yang diberikan-Nya kepada mereka. Itu terjadi sesuai dengan peringatan yang diberikan TUHAN kepada mereka melalui hamba-hamba-Nya, para nabi. Demikianlah orang Israel dibawa ke pembuangan di Asyur, dan di situlah mereka tinggal sampai hari ini.
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 Sebagai pengganti orang Israel yang telah diangkut ke pembuangan itu, raja Asyur menempatkan di kota-kota Samaria, orang-orang dari Babel, Kuta, Awa, Hamat, dan Sefarwaim. Orang-orang itu menduduki kota-kota itu dan menetap di situ.
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 Pada waktu mereka mula-mula tinggal di situ mereka tidak menghormati TUHAN; itu sebabnya TUHAN mendatangkan singa-singa untuk menerkam sebagian dari mereka.
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 Lalu orang memberitahukan kepada raja Asyur bahwa orang-orang yang ditempatkannya di kota-kota di Samaria tidak mengenal hukum-hukum dewa negeri itu. Itu sebabnya dewa itu mendatangkan singa untuk menerkam mereka.
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 Karena itu raja Asyur memerintahkan supaya seorang imam dari antara para tawanan yang telah dibuang ke Asyur, dikirim kembali ke Samaria. "Suruh dia pulang dan tinggal di situ supaya ia bisa mengajar orang-orang itu tentang hukum-hukum dewa negeri itu," kata raja.
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 Maka seorang imam Israel, yang sudah diangkut dari Samaria ke Asyur, pulang dan tinggal di Betel. Di sana ia mengajar rakyat bagaimana seharusnya menyembah TUHAN.
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 Tetapi orang-orang yang tinggal di Samaria itu tetap membuat berhala-berhala mereka sendiri dan menempatkannya di dalam kuil-kuil yang didirikan oleh orang Israel yang dahulu tinggal di kota itu. Setiap golongan membuat berhalanya sendiri di kota yang mereka diami:
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 Orang Babel membuat patung Dewa Sukot-Benot, orang Kuta membuat patung Nergal, orang Hamat patung Asima,
The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
31 orang Awa patung Nibhas dan Tartak, dan orang Sefarwaim mempersembahkan anak-anak mereka sebagai kurban bakaran kepada Dewa Adramelekh dan Anamelekh.
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 Selain menyembah dewa-dewa itu, mereka juga menyembah TUHAN. Mereka memilih dari antara mereka bermacam-macam orang untuk bertugas sebagai imam dan untuk mempersembahkan kurban di kuil-kuil berhala.
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 Jadi, mereka menyembah TUHAN, tetapi juga menyembah dewa-dewa mereka sendiri, sesuai dengan adat istiadat negeri asal mereka.
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 Sampai pada hari ini mereka masih menjalankan adat istiadat mereka. Mereka tidak beribadat kepada TUHAN dan tidak juga mentaati hukum-hukum dan perintah-perintah-Nya yang diberikan-Nya kepada keturunan Yakub, yang dinamakan-Nya juga Israel.
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 TUHAN sudah membuat perjanjian berikut ini dengan umat Israel, "Jangan beribadat kepada ilah-ilah lain; jangan sujud menyembah mereka atau melayani mereka, atau mempersembahkan kurban kepada mereka.
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 Hormatilah Aku, TUHAN, yang telah membawa kamu keluar dari Mesir dengan kuasa yang besar; sembahlah Aku dan persembahkanlah kurban kepada-Ku.
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 Taatilah selalu hukum-hukum dan perintah-perintah yang sudah Kutulis untukmu. Jangan beribadat kepada ilah-ilah lain,
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 dan jangan melupakan perjanjian antara Aku dengan kamu.
And you are to keep in memory the agreement which I have made with you; and you are to have no other gods.
39 Taatilah Aku, TUHAN Allahmu, maka Aku akan melepaskan kamu dari musuh-musuhmu."
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 Tetapi penduduk Samaria itu tidak mau mendengar; mereka tetap berpegang pada adat istiadat mereka.
But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.
41 Jadi, mereka menyembah TUHAN, tetapi juga menyembah berhala-berhala mereka. Sampai hari ini pun keturunan mereka masih melakukan hal itu.
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.
