1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
3 ¶ Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents. 4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present 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.
5 ¶ Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
6 ¶ In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. 10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: 11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: 12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. 13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye 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. 14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. 15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them. 16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. 17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. 19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. 20 And the LORD 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. 21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin. 22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; 23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
24 ¶ And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, 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 so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them. 26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land. 27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land. 28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. 29 Howbeit 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 wherein they dwelt. 30 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, 31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. 32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. 33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence. 34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; 35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them: 36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice. 37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods. 38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods. 39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. 40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. 41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
1 anno duodecimo Ahaz regis Iuda
regnavit Osee filius Hela in Samaria super Israhel novem annis
2 fecitque malum coram Domino
sed non sicut reges Israhel qui ante eum fuerant
3 contra hunc ascendit Salmanassar rex Assyriorum
et factus est ei Osee servus reddebatque illi tributa
4 cumque deprehendisset rex Assyriorum Osee
quod rebellare nitens misisset nuntios ad Sua regem Aegypti
ne praestaret tributa regi Assyriorum
sicut singulis annis solitus erat
obsedit eum et vinctum misit in carcerem
5 pervagatusque est omnem terram
et ascendens Samariam obsedit eam tribus annis
6 anno autem nono Osee cepit rex Assyriorum Samariam
et transtulit Israhel in Assyrios
posuitque eos in Ala et in Habor iuxta fluvium Gozan
in civitatibus Medorum
7 factum est enim cum peccassent filii Israhel Domino Deo suo
qui eduxerat eos de terra Aegypti de manu Pharaonis regis Aegypti
coluerunt deos alienos
8 et ambulaverunt iuxta ritum gentium
quas consumpserat Dominus in conspectu filiorum Israhel
et regum Israhel quia similiter fecerant
9 et operuerunt filii Israhel verbis
non rectis Dominum Deum suum
et aedificaverunt sibi excelsa in cunctis urbibus suis
a turre custodum usque ad civitatem munitam
10 feceruntque sibi statuas et lucos
in omni colle sublimi et subter omne lignum nemorosum
11 et adolebant ibi incensum super aras
in more gentium quas transtulerat Dominus a facie eorum
feceruntque verba pessima inritantes Dominum
12 et coluerunt inmunditias
de quibus praecepit Dominus eis ne facerent verbum hoc
13 et testificatus est Dominus in Israhel et in Iuda
per manum omnium prophetarum et videntum dicens
revertimini a viis vestris pessimis
et custodite praecepta mea et caerimonias
iuxta omnem legem quam praecepi patribus vestris
et sicut misi ad vos in manu servorum meorum prophetarum
14 qui non audierunt sed induraverunt cervicem suam
iuxta cervicem patrum suorum
qui noluerunt oboedire Domino Deo suo
15 et abiecerunt legitima eius
et pactum quod pepigit cum patribus eorum
et testificationes quibus contestatus est eos
secutique sunt vanitates et vane egerunt
et secuti sunt gentes quae erant per circuitum eorum
super quibus praeceperat Dominus eis
ut non facerent sicut et illae faciebant
16 et dereliquerunt omnia praecepta Domini Dei sui
feceruntque sibi conflatiles duos vitulos et lucos
et adoraverunt universam militiam caeli servieruntque Baal
17 et consecrabant ei filios suos et filias suas per ignem
et divinationibus inserviebant et auguriis
et tradiderunt se ut facerent malum coram Domino
et inritarent eum
18 iratusque est Dominus vehementer Israhel
et abstulit eos de conspectu suo
et non remansit nisi tribus Iuda tantummodo
19 sed nec ipse Iuda custodivit mandata Domini Dei sui
verum ambulavit in erroribus Israhel quos operatus fuerat
20 proiecitque Dominus omne semen Israhel
et adflixit eos et tradidit in manu diripientium
donec proiceret eos a facie sua
21 ex eo iam tempore quo scissus est Israhel a domo David
et constituerunt sibi regem Hieroboam filium Nabath
separavit enim Hieroboam Israhel a Domino
et peccare eos fecit peccatum magnum
22 et ambulaverunt filii Israhel in universis peccatis Hieroboam quae
fecerat
non recesserunt ab eis
23 usquequo auferret Dominus Israhel a facie sua
sicut locutus fuerat in manu omnium servorum suorum prophetarum
translatusque est Israhel de terra sua in Assyrios
usque in diem hanc
24 adduxit autem rex Assyriorum
de Babylone et de Chutha et de Haiath
et de Emath et de Sepharvaim
et conlocavit eos in civitatibus Samariae pro filiis Israhel
qui possederunt Samariam et habitaverunt in urbibus eius
25 cumque ibi habitare coepissent non timebant Dominum
et inmisit eis Dominus leones qui interficiebant eos
26 nuntiatumque est regi Assyriorum et dictum
gentes quas transtulisti et habitare fecisti in civitatibus Samariae
ignorant legitima Dei terrae
et inmisit in eos Dominus leones et ecce interficiunt eos
eo quod ignorent ritum Dei terrae
27 praecepit autem rex Assyriorum dicens
ducite illuc unum de sacerdotibus quos inde captivos adduxistis
et vadat et habitet cum eis et doceat eos legitima Dei terrae
28 igitur cum venisset unus de sacerdotibus his
qui captivi ducti fuerant de Samaria
habitavit in Bethel et docebat eos quomodo colerent Dominum
29 et unaquaeque gens fabricata est deum suum
posueruntque eos in fanis excelsis quae fecerant Samaritae
gens et gens in urbibus suis in quibus habitabant
30 viri enim babylonii fecerunt Socchothbenoth
viri autem chutheni fecerunt Nergel
et viri de Emath fecerunt Asima
31 porro Evei fecerunt Nebaaz et Tharthac
hii autem qui erant de Sepharvaim conburebant filios suos igni
Adramelech et Anamelech diis Sepharvaim
32 et nihilominus colebant Dominum
fecerunt autem sibi de novissimis sacerdotes excelsorum
et ponebant eos in fanis sublimibus
33 et cum Dominum colerent diis quoque suis serviebant
iuxta consuetudinem gentium de quibus translati fuerant Samariam
34 usque in praesentem diem morem sequuntur antiquum
non timent Dominum neque custodiunt caerimonias eius
et iudicia et legem et mandatum
quod praeceperat Dominus filiis Iacob quem cognominavit Israhel
35 et percusserat cum eis pactum et mandaverat eis dicens
nolite timere deos alienos
et non adoretis eos neque colatis et non immoletis eis
36 sed Dominum Deum vestrum qui eduxit vos de terra Aegypti
in fortitudine magna et in brachio extento
ipsum timete illum adorate et ipsi immolate
37 caerimonias quoque et iudicia et legem et mandatum quod scripsit vobis
custodite
ut faciatis cunctis diebus et non timeatis deos alienos
38 et pactum quod percussi vobiscum nolite oblivisci
nec colatis deos alienos
39 sed Dominum Deum vestrum timete
et ipse eruet vos de manu omnium inimicorum vestrorum
40 illi vero non audierunt
sed iuxta consuetudinem suam pristinam perpetrabant
41 fuerunt igitur gentes istae timentes quidem Dominum
sed nihilominus et idolis suis servientes
nam et filii eorum et nepotes
sicut fecerunt parentes sui
ita faciunt usque in praesentem diem