¹In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel for nine years.

¹V dvanajstem letu Ahaza, kralja na Judovem, je zakraljeval Hosea, sin Elov, nad Izraelom v Samariji, in vladal je devet let.

²He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.

²In delal je, kar je bilo hudo v očeh GOSPODOVIH, pa ne kakor kralji Izraelovi, ki so bili pred njim.

³Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.

³Zoper njega je prišel Salmaneser, kralj asirski, in Hosea mu je postal podložnik in mu dajal davek.

⁴The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

⁴Ko pa je asirski kralj izvedel, da je Hosea napravil zaroto, ker je poslal sporočnikov do Soa, egiptovskega kralja, in ni prinašal davka asirskemu kralju kakor navadno leto za letom, ga je ujel in zvezanega poslal v ječo.

⁵Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

⁵Tedaj je šel asirski kralj gori po vsej deželi in prispel proti Samariji ter jo je oblegal tri leta.

⁶In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

⁶V devetem letu Hosea je kralj asirski dobil Samarijo in odpeljal Izraela v Asirijo in jih je naselil v Halahi in v Haborju, ob reki Gozanu, in v mestih Medov.

⁷It was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

⁷To pa se je zgodilo, ker so grešili sinovi Izraelovi zoper GOSPODA, svojega Boga, ki jih je bil odpeljal iz Egipta, izpod oblasti Faraona, kralja egiptovskega, in ker so se bali drugih bogov

⁸and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

⁸in živeli po postavah poganov, ki jih je bil GOSPOD pregnal pred sinovi Izraelovimi, in po postavah kraljev Izraelovih, ki so jih naredili.

⁹The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

⁹In sinovi Izraelovi so skrivaj počenjali stvari, ki niso bile prave, zoper GOSPODA, Boga svojega, in so si zidali višave po vseh mestih svojih, od čuvajevega stolpa do utrjenega mesta.

¹⁰and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;

¹⁰In postavljali so stebre s podobami in Ašere na vsakem visokem hribu in pod vsakim zelenim drevesom,

¹¹and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them; and they worked wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;

¹¹in tam so žgali kadilo po vseh višavah kakor poganski narodi, ki jih je bil GOSPOD pregnal izpred njih obličja, in delali so hudobne reči, da bi dražili GOSPODA v jezo.

¹²and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”

¹²In služili so malikom, o čemer jim je rekel GOSPOD: Ne storíte take reči!

¹³Yet Yahweh 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, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

¹³In ko je GOSPOD pričal proti Izraelu in proti Judi po vseh prorokih in vseh vidcih, govoreč: Obrnite se od hudih poti svojih in izpolnjujte zapovedi in postave moje soglasno z vsem zakonom, ki sem ga zapovedal očetom vašim in ki sem vam ga pošiljal po hlapcih svojih prorokih!

¹⁴Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.

¹⁴vendar niso poslušali, ampak zatrdili so svoj zatilnik, da je bil enak zatilniku njih očetov, ki niso verovali v GOSPODA, Boga svojega.

¹⁵They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

¹⁵In zaničevali so postave njegove in zavezo njegovo, ki jo je sklenil ž njih očeti, in pričevanja njegova, ki jih je pričal zoper nje, in hodeč za ničemurnostjo, so postali ničemurni in so sledili za pogani, ki so bivali okrog njih, za katere jim je GOSPOD ukazal, da naj ne delajo njim enako.

¹⁶They forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.

¹⁶In so zapustili vse zapovedi GOSPODA, Boga svojega, in si napravili ulite podobe, zlasti dve teleti, in naredili Ašero in so molili vso vojsko nebeško in služili Baalu.

¹⁷They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

¹⁷In so darovali svoje sinove in svoje hčere, vodeč jih skozi ogenj, in se pečali z vedeževanjem in čaranjem in se prodali, da bi delali, kar je bilo hudo v očeh GOSPODOVIH, da bi ga dražili v jezo.

¹⁸Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

¹⁸In razjezil se je GOSPOD silno nad Izraelom in ga je odpravil izpred svojih oči, da ni ostal nihče nego sam rod Judov.

¹⁹Also Judah didn’t keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

¹⁹Pa tudi Juda ni izpolnjeval zapovedi GOSPODA, Boga svojega, temuč živel je po postavah Izraelovih, ki so si jih naredili.

²⁰Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

²⁰Zato je GOSPOD zavrgel vse seme Izraelovo, in jih je stiskal in jih dal plenilcem v roke, dokler jih ni pognal izpred obličja svojega.

²¹For he tore Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel from following Yahweh, and made them sin a great sin.

²¹Kajti odtrgal je Izraela od hiše Davidove, in postavili so za kralja Jeroboama, sina Nebatovega; in Jeroboam je odtegnil Izraela, da ni šel za GOSPODOM, in je povzročil, da so hudo grešili.

²²The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they didn’t depart from them;

²²In sinovi Izraelovi so hodili v vseh grehih Jeroboama, ki jih je storil, in niso odstopili od njih,

²³until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he spoke by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day.

²³dokler ni GOSPOD odpravil Izraela izpred obličja svojega, kakor je bil govoril po vseh svojih hlapcih prorokih. Tako je bil Izrael preseljen iz svoje dežele v Asirijo, do tega dne.

²⁴The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in the cities of it.

²⁴Kralj asirski pa je pripeljal ljudi iz Babela in iz Kute in iz Ave, iz Hamata in Sefarvaima in jih je razstavil po mestih samarijskih namesto sinov Izraelovih. In prilastili so si Samarijo ter prebivali v njenih mestih.

²⁵So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn’t fear Yahweh: therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

²⁵A v začetku, ko so prebivali ondi, se niso bali GOSPODA; zato je GOSPOD poslal mednje leve, ki so jih morili.

²⁶Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations which you have carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria, don’t know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them, because they don’t know the law of the god of the land.”

²⁶Zatorej sporoče kralju asirskemu, rekoč: Narodi, ki si jih preselil in razstavil po mestih samarijskih, ne poznajo pravic deželnega Boga, zato je poslal leve mednje; in glej, ti jih more, ker ne poznajo pravic deželnega Boga.

²⁷Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, “Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.”

²⁷Tedaj zapove kralj asirski, rekoč: Peljite tja enega izmed duhovnikov, ki ste jih odondod privedli; ta naj gre in se ondi nastani in jih uči pravice Boga tiste dežele.

²⁸So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Yahweh.

²⁸Nato pride eden duhovnikov, katere so odpeljali iz Samarije, in se nastani v Betelu ter jih uči, kako naj se boje GOSPODA.

²⁹However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.

²⁹Ali vsak narod je naredil svojega boga, in postavili so jih v hiše višav, ki so jih bili Samarijani napravili, vsak narod po mestih svojih, v katerih so prebivali.

³⁰The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

³⁰Babelski možje so namreč naredili Sukot-benota, možje iz Kuta pa so naredili Nergala, možje iz Hamata Asima,

³¹and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

³¹Avljani pa so naredili Nibhaza in Tartaka, a Sefarvaimci so sežigali svoje otroke v ognju Adrameleku in Anameleku, bogovoma Sefarvaimov.

³²So they feared Yahweh, and made to them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

³²Vendar so se bali GOSPODA in si postavili izmed sebe duhovnike višavam, ki so darovali zanje v hišah po višavah.

³³They feared Yahweh, and served their own gods, after the ways of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

³³GOSPODA so se sicer bali, a služili so tudi svojim bogovom po navadi narodov, izmed katerih so bili sem priseljeni.

³⁴To this day they do what they did before: they don’t fear Yahweh, neither do they follow their statutes, or their ordinances, or the law or the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

³⁴In do današnjega dne se ravnajo po prvotni navadi: GOSPODA se ne boje; tudi ne delajo po svojih postavah in naredbah, pa tudi ne po postavi in zapovedi, ki jo je GOSPOD zapovedal sinovom Jakoba, ki mu je dal ime Izrael,

³⁵with whom Yahweh had made a covenant, and commanded them, saying, “You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them;

³⁵s katerim je GOSPOD sklenil zavezo, in jim je zapovedal, govoreč: Ne bojte se drugih bogov, tudi se jim ne klanjajte, ne služite jim in ne darujte jim;

³⁶but you shall fear Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, and you shall bow yourselves to him, and you shall sacrifice to him.

³⁶ampak GOSPODA, ki vas je z veliko močjo in z iztegnjeno ramo odpeljal iz Egiptovske dežele, njega se bojte, njemu se poklanjajte in njemu darujte;

³⁷The statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do forevermore. You shall not fear other gods.

³⁷in pazite na postave in naredbe, zakon in zapoved, ki vam jih je predpisal, da jih izpolnjujete vse svoje žive dni, in ne bojte se drugih bogov;

³⁸You shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you; neither shall you fear other gods.

³⁸in zaveze, ki sem jo sklenil z vami, ne zabite, tudi se ne bojte drugih bogov,

³⁹But you shall fear Yahweh your God; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”

³⁹marveč bojte se GOSPODA, Boga svojega, in on vas otme iz roke vseh sovražnikov vaših.

⁴⁰However they did not listen, but they did what they did before.

⁴⁰Toda niso poslušali, temuč so delali po svoji prvotni navadi.Tako so se ti narodi sicer bali GOSPODA, toda služili so svojim izrezanim podobam; enako delajo tudi njih otroci in njih otrok otroci do tega dne, kakor so delali njih očetje.

⁴¹So these nations feared Yahweh, and served their engraved images. Their children likewise, and their children’s children, as their fathers did, so they do to this day.

⁴¹Tako so se ti narodi sicer bali GOSPODA, toda služili so svojim izrezanim podobam; enako delajo tudi njih otroci in njih otrok otroci do tega dne, kakor so delali njih očetje.