2 Bakonzi 17
1 Tango Akazi, mokonzi ya Yuda, akokisaki mibu zomi na mibale na bokonzi, Oze, mwana mobali ya Ela, akomaki mokonzi ya Isalaele na Samari. Akonzaki mibu libwa.
In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, the reign of Hoshea son of Elah began. He ruled in Samaria over Israel for nine years.
2 Oze asalaki makambo mabe na miso ya Yawe, kasi ndenge moko te na bakonzi ya Isalaele, oyo bazalaki liboso na ye.
He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.
3 Salimanasari, mokonzi ya Asiri, ayaki kobundisa Oze. Mpe Oze akomaki mowumbu mpe akomaki kofuta mpako epai ya Salimanasari.
Shalmaneser king of Assyria attacked him, and Hoshea became his servant and brought him tribute.
4 Kasi mokonzi ya Asiri asosolaki ete Oze asaleli ye likita, pamba te Oze atindaki bantoma epai ya So, mokonzi ya Ejipito, mpe atikaki kofuta mpako epai ya mokonzi ya Asiri ndenge azalaki kosala mobu na mobu. Boye Salimanasari akangaki Oze mpe atiaki ye na boloko.
Then the king of Assyria realized that Hoshea had been plotting against him, for Hoshea had sent messengers to So king of Egypt; also, he offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. So the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.
5 Mokonzi ya Asiri akotaki na makasi na mokili mobimba, abundisaki Samari mpe azingelaki yango mibu misato.
Then the king of Assyria attacked throughout all the land, and attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.
6 Tango Oze akokisaki mibu libwa na bokonzi, mokonzi ya Asiri abotolaki Samari mpe amemaki bana ya Isalaele na bowumbu na Asiri. Atiaki bango na Ala mpe na bapembeni ya ebale ya Abori, na etuka ya Gozani mpe na bingumba ya Medi.
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria. He put them in Halah, at the Habor River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7 Makambo oyo esalemaki mpo ete bato ya Isalaele basalaki masumu liboso ya Yawe, Nzambe na bango, oyo abimisaki bango wuta na bokonzi ya Faraon, mokonzi ya Ejipito; bagumbamelaki banzambe mosusu.
This captivity happened because the people of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. The people had been worshiping other gods
8 Balandaki bizaleli ya bikolo oyo Yawe abenganaki liboso na bango mpe makambo oyo bakonzi ya Isalaele bakotisaki.
and walking in the practices of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel, and in the practices of the kings of Israel that they had done.
9 Bato ya Isalaele basalaki na nkuku makambo ya nkele na miso ya Yawe, Nzambe na bango. Batongaki bisambelo ya likolo ya bangomba kati na bingumba na bango nyonso, kobanda na likolo ya bamir ya lopango kino na bingumba batonga makasi.
The people of Israel did secretly—against Yahweh their God—things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortress.
10 Batelemisaki mabanga ya bule mpe makonzi ya nzambe mwasi Ashera na likolo ya bangomba nyonso mpe na se ya banzete nyonso ya mibesu.
They also set up stone pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
11 Batumbaki ansa na bisambelo nyonso ya likolo ya bangomba, ndenge bikolo oyo Yawe abenganaki liboso na bango ezalaki kosala. Basalaki makambo mabe oyo etumbolaki kanda ya Yawe.
There they burned incense in all the high places, as the nations had done, those whom Yahweh had carried away before them. The Israelites performed wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;
12 Bagumbamelaki banzambe ya bikeko oyo na tina na yango Yawe alobaki: « Bokosala bongo te. »
they worshiped idols, about which Yahweh had said to them, “You will not do this thing.”
13 Yawe akebisaki Isalaele mpe Yuda na nzela ya basali na Ye nyonso, basakoli mpe bamoni makambo, na maloba oyo: « Botika banzela na bino ya mabe, bobatela mibeko mpe bikateli na Ngai kolanda mibeko nyonso oyo napesaki bino mpe bakoko na bino na nzela ya basali na Ngai, basakoli. »
Yet Yahweh had testified to Israel and to Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, and be careful to keep all the law I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
14 Kasi bayokaki te; batiaki moto makasi lokola bakoko na bango, oyo baboyaki kondimela Yawe, Nzambe na bango.
But they would not listen; instead they were very stubborn like their fathers who did not trust in Yahweh their God.
15 Babwakaki bikateli na Ye, boyokani oyo asalaki elongo na bakoko na bango mpe makebisi oyo apesaki bango. Balandaki bikolo oyo ezalaki zingazinga na bango. Yawe apesaki bango mitindo ete basala te lokola bango, kasi bango basalaki kaka makambo oyo Yawe apekisaki bango kosala.
They rejected his statutes and the covenant that he had made with their ancestors, and the covenant decrees that he had given to them. They followed useless practices and they themselves became useless. They followed the pagan nations who were around them, those that Yahweh had commanded them not to imitate.
16 Batikaki mitindo nyonso ya Yawe, Nzambe na bango, mpe bamisalelaki banzambe ya bikeko ya bana ngombe mibale basala na bibende oyo banyangwisa na moto, mpe likonzi ya nzambe mwasi Ashera. Bango nyonso bagumbamelaki mampinga nyonso ya likolo, mpe basambelaki nzambe Bala.
They ignored all the commandments of Yahweh their God. They made cast metal figures of two calves to worship. They made an Asherah pole, and they worshiped all the stars of the heavens and Baal.
17 Batumbaki na moto lokola mbeka bana na bango ya mibali mpe bana na bango ya basi. Basalelaki soloka mpe kindoki, mpe bamikabaki mpo na kosala makambo mabe na miso ya Yawe. Boye batumbolaki kanda ya Yawe.
They made their sons and daughters pass through the fire, they used divination and enchantments, they sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to anger.
18 Yawe asilikelaki makasi bana ya Isalaele mpe abenganaki bango mosika na Ye. Kaka libota ya Yuda nde batikalaki.
Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. There was no one left but the tribe of Judah alone.
19 Nzokande, libota yango mpe ya Yuda babatelaki te mitindo ya Yawe, Nzambe na bango, balandaki bizaleli oyo Isalaele akotisaki.
Even Judah did not keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, and they followed the practices that Israel had done.
20 Boye, Yawe abwakaki bana nyonso ya Isalaele, ayokisaki bango pasi, akabaki bango na maboko ya bato ya mobulu, mpe abenganaki bango mosika na Ye.
So Yahweh rejected all the descendants of Israel; he afflicted them and gave them into the hand of those who would take the possession as spoil, until he had cast them out of his sight.
21 Tango Yawe alongolaki Isalaele na se ya bokonzi ya Davidi, bana ya Isalaele bakomisaki Jeroboami, mwana mobali ya Nebati, mokonzi na bango. Jeroboami atindikaki Isalaele ete balanda Yawe te, mpe amemisaki bango lisumu ya monene.
He tore Israel from the royal line of David, and they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king. Jeroboam drove Israel away from following Yahweh and made them commit a great sin.
22 Bato ya Isalaele bakangamaki na masumu nyonso ya Jeroboami mpe batikaki yango te
The people of Israel followed all the sins of Jeroboam and they did not depart from them,
23 kino tango Yawe abenganaki bango mosika na Ye, ndenge ayebisaki bango na nzela ya basali na Ye nyonso, basakoli. Boye, bamemaki bana ya Isalaele na bowumbu, mosika ya mokili na bango, na Asiri kino lelo.
so Yahweh removed Israel from his sight, as he had said through all his servants the prophets that he would. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria, and it is this way to this present day.
24 Mokonzi ya Asiri amemaki bato wuta na bingumba ya Babiloni, ya Kuti, ya Ava, ya Amati mpe ya Sefarivayimi; mpe atiaki bango na Samari, na esika ya bana ya Isalaele. Bato yango bazwaki Samari mpe bavandaki kati na bingumba na yango.
The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon and from Kuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria in place of the people of Israel. They took over Samaria and lived in its cities.
25 Liboso, tango bazalaki kovanda kuna, bato yango bazalaki kogumbamela Yawe te. Boye Yawe atindaki nkosi kati na bango, mpe ebomaki ndambo ya bato kati na bango.
It happened at the beginning of their residence there that they did not honor Yahweh. So Yahweh sent lions among them which killed some of them.
26 Bayebisaki mokonzi ya Asiri: — Bikolo oyo omemaki na bowumbu mpe otiaki kati na bingumba ya Samari bayebi te makambo oyo Nzambe ya mokili wana alingaka. Boye Nzambe atindi kati na bango nkosi oyo ezali koboma bango, pamba te bato yango bayebi te makambo oyo Nzambe yango alingaka.
So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the practices required by the god of the land. So he has sent lions among them, and, see, the lions are killing people there because they do not know the practices required by the god of the land.”
27 Boye mokonzi ya Asiri apesaki mitindo oyo: — Botinda kuna moko kati na Banganga-Nzambe oyo bomemaki na bowumbu wuta na Samari mpo ete avanda kuna mpe alakisa bato makambo oyo Nzambe ya mokili wana alingaka.
Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, “Take one of the priests there whom you brought from there, and let him go and live there, and let him teach them the practices required by the god of the land.”
28 Boye moko kati na Banganga-Nzambe oyo bamemaki na bowumbu wuta na Samari ayaki kovanda na Beteli mpe alakisaki bango kogumbamela Yawe.
So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel; he taught them how they should honor Yahweh.
29 Kasi ekolo na ekolo esalaki banzambe na yango kati na bingumba nyonso oyo bazalaki kovanda, mpe batiaki banzambe yango kati na bisika ya bule ya bisambelo ya likolo ya bangomba oyo bato ya Samari batongaki.
Every ethnic group made gods of their own, and put them in the high places that the Samaritans had made—every ethnic group in the cities where they lived.
30 Bato oyo bawutaki na Babiloni basalaki ekeko ya nzambe Sukoti-Benoti; ba-oyo bawutaki na Kuti basalaki ekeko ya nzambe Nerigali; ba-oyo bawutaki na Amati basalaki ekeko ya nzambe Ashima;
The people of Babylon made Succoth Benoth; the people of Kuthah made Nergal; the people of Hamath made Ashima;
31 ba-oyo bawutaki na Ava basalaki bikeko ya nzambe Nibikazi mpe nzambe Taritaki; ba-oyo bawutaki na Sefarivayimi bazalaki kokoba kotumba bana na bango na moto lokola mbeka epai ya Adrameleki mpe Anameleki, banzambe ya bato ya Sefarivayimi.
the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak. The Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelek and Anammelek, the gods of the Sepharvites.
32 Bato ya bikolo yango bazalaki na bango kotosa Yawe, kasi baponaki lisusu kati na bango bato mpo na kosala mosala ya bonganga-nzambe kati na bisika ya bule ya bisambelo ya likolo ya bangomba.
They also honored Yahweh, and appointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the temples at the high places.
33 Atako bazalaki kotosa Yawe, kasi bazalaki mpe kosalela banzambe na bango kolanda bizaleli ya bikolo epai wapi bawutaki.
They honored Yahweh and also worshiped their own gods, in the customs of the nations from among whom they had been taken away.
34 Kino lelo, bakangami kaka na bizaleli na bango ya kala; bagumbamelaka penza Yawe te mpe batosaka te bikateli mpe malako, mibeko mpe mitindo oyo Yawe apesaki epai ya bakitani ya Jakobi oyo apesaki kombo « Isalaele. »
To this day they persist in their old customs. They neither honor Yahweh, nor do they follow the statutes, decrees, the law, or the commandments that Yahweh gave to the people of Jacob—whom he named Israel—
35 Tango Yawe asalaki boyokani elongo na bana ya Isalaele, alobaki na bango: « Bokogumbamela banzambe mosusu te, bokofukamela yango te, bokosalela yango te mpe bokobonzela yango bambeka te;
and with whom Yahweh had made a covenant and commanded them, “You will not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor worship them, nor sacrifice to them.
36 kaka Yawe oyo abimisaki bino wuta na Ejipito, na nguya mpe na loboko esembolama, nde bosengeli kogumbamela. Liboso na Ye kaka nde bosengeli kogumbama mpe kobonza bambeka.
But Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and a raised arm, is the one you must honor; it is to him that you will prostrate yourselves, and it is to him that you will sacrifice.
37 Bosengeli tango nyonso kozala na bokebi mpo na kobatela bikateli mpe malako, mibeko mpe mitindo oyo Yawe akomaki mpo na bino. Bogumbamela banzambe mosusu te,
The statutes and the decrees, the law and the commandments that he wrote for you, you will keep them forever. So you must not fear other gods,
38 bobosana te boyokani oyo nasalaki elongo na bino, mpe bogumbamela banzambe mosusu te.
and the covenant that I have made with you, you will not forget; neither will you honor other gods.
39 Kaka Yawe, Nzambe na bino, nde bosengeli kogumbamela, pamba te Ye nde akangolaki bino na maboko ya banguna na bino nyonso. »
But Yahweh your God is who you will honor. He will rescue you from the might of your enemies.”
40 Kasi bato ya bikolo wana bayokaki te mpe batingamaki kaka na bizaleli na bango ya kala.
They would not listen, because they continued to do what they had done in the past.
41 Atako bato ya bikolo yango bazalaki kotosa Yawe, kasi bazalaki mpe kosalela banzambe na bango ya bikeko. Kino lelo, bana na bango mpe bakitani na bango bazali kokoba kosala makambo oyo bakoko na bango bazalaki kosala.
So these nations feared Yahweh and they also worshiped their carved figures, and their children did the same—as did their children's children. They continue to do what their ancestors did, up to this day.
