2 Kings 17
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1In the twelfth year of Achaz [he has grasped] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] began Hoshea [salvation] the son of Elah [an oak] to reign in Shomron [watch mountain] over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] nine years.
2And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), but not as the kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] that were before him.
3Against him came up Shalman’eser [fire-worshipper] [fire-worshipper] king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))); and Hoshea [salvation] became his servant, and gave him presents.
4And the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) found conspiracy in Hoshea [salvation]: for he had sent messengers to So [concealed] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and brought no present to the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), as [he had done] year by year: therefore the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) shut him up, and bound him in prison.
5Then the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) came up throughout all the land, and went up to Shomron [watch mountain], and besieged it three years.
6In the ninth year of Hoshea [salvation] the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) took Shomron [watch mountain], and carried Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] away into Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), and placed them in Halach [painful] and in Havor [joining] [by] the river of Gozan [a cutting off], and in the cities of the Medes [middle land].
7For [so] it was, that the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] had sinned against the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], which had brought them up out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], from under the hand of Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and had feared other gods,
8And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) cast out from before the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and of the kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], which they had made.
9And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] did secretly [those] things that [were] not right against the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
10And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
11And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as [did] the heathen whom the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) to anger:
12For they served idols, whereof the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had said unto them, You2f shall not do this thing.
13Yet the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) testified against Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and against Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], by all the prophets, [and by] all the seers, saying, Turn you2f 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.
14Yet they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].
15And 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-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had charged them, that they should not do like them.
16And they left all the commandments of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and made them molten images, [even] two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the army of heaven, and served Ba’al [lord (a false god)].
17And 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-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to provoke him to anger.
18Therefore the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was very angry with Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] only.
19Also Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] kept not the commandments of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], but walked in the statutes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] which they made.
20And the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) rejected all the seed of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
21For he rent Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] from the house of David [beloved]; and they made Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of N’vat [aspect] king: and Yarov’am [the people will contend] drove Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] from following the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and made them sin a great sin.
22For the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] walked in all the sins of Yarov’am [the people will contend] which he did; they departed not from them;
23Until the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) removed Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] carried away out of their own land to Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) unto this day.
24And the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) brought [men] from Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and from Kutah [crushing], and from ‘Ava [ruin], and from Hamat [Fortress], and from S’farvayim [the two Sipparas (the city of books)], and placed [them] in the cities of Shomron [watch mountain] instead of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: and they possessed Shomron [watch mountain], and dwelt in the cities thereof.
25And [so] it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, [that] they feared not the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): therefore the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) sent lions among them, which killed [some] of them.
26For what reason they spoke to the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), saying, The nations which youi have removed, and placed in the cities of Shomron [watch mountain], know not the manner of the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of the land: therefore he has sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of the land.
27Then the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) commanded, saying, Carry there one of the priests whom you2f brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of the land.
28Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Shomron [watch mountain] came and dwelt in Beit-El [House of God], and taught them how they should fear the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
29However every nation made gods of their own, and put [them] in the houses of the high places which the Shomronim [of Samaria (the watch-mountain)] had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
30And the men of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] made Sukkot-B’not [the daughter’s booth], and the men of Kutah [crushing] made Nergal [hero], and the men of Hamat [Fortress] made Ashima [guiltiness: I will make desolate],
31And the ‘Avim [Ruins] made Nivchaz [the barker] and Tartak [prince of darkness], and the S’farvim [enumeration] burnt their children in fire to Adramelekh [honor of the king, or Adar is prince] and Adramelekh [image of the king], the gods of S’farvayim [the two Sipparas (the city of books)].
32So they feared the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), 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.
33They feared the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from there.
34Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded the children of Ya’akov [Heal of God], whom he named Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God];
35With whom the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, You2f shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
36But the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), who brought you up out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall you2f fear, and him shall you2f worship, and to him shall you2f do sacrifice.
37And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you2f shall observe to do forevermore; and you2f shall not fear other gods.
38And the covenant that I have made with you you2f shall not forget; neither shall you2f fear other gods.
39But the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] you2f shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
40However they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
41So these nations feared the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
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