2 Kings 17
New English Translation
Hoshea’s Reign over Israel
17 In the twelfth year of King Ahaz’s reign over Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria for nine years. 2 He did evil in the sight of[a] the Lord, but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him. 3 King Shalmaneser of Assyria marched up to attack[b] him; so Hoshea became his subject and paid him tribute. 4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt.[c] Hoshea had sent messengers to King So[d] of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him.[e] 5 The king of Assyria marched through[f] the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years. 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel[g] to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.
A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History
7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of[h] Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped[i] other gods; 8 they observed the practices[j] of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before them,[k] and followed the example of the kings of Israel.[l] 9 The Israelites said things about the Lord their God that were not right.[m] They built high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. 11 They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the Lord had driven away before them did. Their evil practices made the Lord angry.[n] 12 They worshiped[o] the disgusting idols[p] in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command.[q]
13 The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, “Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.”[r] 14 But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors,[s] who had not trusted the Lord their God. 15 They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey.[t] They paid allegiance to[u] worthless idols, and so became worthless to the Lord.[v] They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command.[w] 16 They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky,[x] and worshiped[y] Baal. 17 They passed their sons and daughters through the fire,[z] and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the Lord and made him angry.[aa]
18 So the Lord was furious[ab] with Israel and rejected them;[ac] only the tribe of Judah was left. 19 Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the Lord their God; they followed Israel’s example.[ad] 20 So the Lord rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated[ae] them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence. 21 He tore Israel away from David’s dynasty, and Jeroboam son of Nebat became their king.[af] Jeroboam drove Israel away[ag] from the Lord and encouraged them to commit a serious sin.[ah] 22 The Israelites followed in the sinful ways of Jeroboam and did not repudiate[ai] them. 23 Finally[aj] the Lord rejected Israel[ak] just as he had warned he would do[al] through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.
The King of Assyria Populates Israel with Foreigners
24 The king of Assyria brought foreigners[am] from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria[an] in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities. 25 When they first moved in,[ao] they did not worship[ap] the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them and the lions were killing them. 26 The king of Assyria was told,[aq] “The nations whom you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land, so he has sent lions among them. They are killing the people[ar] because they do not know the requirements of the God of the land.” 27 So the king of Assyria ordered, “Take back one of the priests whom you[as] deported from there. He must settle there and teach them the requirements of the God of the land.”[at] 28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. He taught them how to worship[au] the Lord.
29 But each of these nations made[av] its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria[aw] had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived. 30 The people from Babylon made Sukkoth Benoth,[ax] the people from Cuth made Nergal,[ay] the people from Hamath made Ashima,[az] 31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak,[ba] and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech,[bb] the gods of Sepharvaim. 32 At the same time they worshiped[bc] the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places.[bd] 33 They were worshiping[be] the Lord and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.
34 To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship[bf] the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave[bg] the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel. 35 The Lord made a covenant with them[bh] and instructed them, “You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them. 36 Instead you must worship the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability;[bi] bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him. 37 You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods. 38 You must never forget the covenant I made with you, and you must not worship other gods. 39 Instead you must worship the Lord your God; then he will rescue you from the power of all your enemies.” 40 But they[bj] paid no attention; instead they observed their earlier practices. 41 These nations were worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons are doing just as their fathers have done, to this very day.
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 17:2 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
- 2 Kings 17:3 tn Heb “went up against.”
- 2 Kings 17:4 tn Heb “and the king of Assyria found in Hoshea conspiracy.”
- 2 Kings 17:4 sn For discussion of this name, see HALOT 744 s.v. סוֹא and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 196.
- 2 Kings 17:4 tn Heb “and bound him in the house of confinement.”
- 2 Kings 17:5 tn Heb “went up against.”
- 2 Kings 17:6 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.
- 2 Kings 17:7 tn Heb “and from under the hand of.” The words “freed them” for stylistic reasons replace the term “under.”
- 2 Kings 17:7 tn Heb “feared.”
- 2 Kings 17:8 tn Heb “walked in the customs.”
- 2 Kings 17:8 tn Heb “before the sons of Israel.”
- 2 Kings 17:8 tn Heb “and [the practices of] the kings of Israel which they did.”
- 2 Kings 17:9 tn The meaning of the verb וַיְחַפְּאוּ (vayekhappeʾu), translated here “said,” is uncertain. Some relate it to the verbal root חָפַה (khafah), “to cover,” and translate “they did it in secret” (see BDB 341 s.v. חָפָא). However, the pagan practices specified in the following sentences were hardly done in secret. Others propose a meaning “ascribe, impute,” which makes good contextual sense but has little etymological support (see HALOT 339 s.v. חפא). In this case Israel claimed that the Lord authorized their pagan practices.
- 2 Kings 17:11 tn Heb “and they did evil things, angering the Lord.”
- 2 Kings 17:12 tn Or “served.”
- 2 Kings 17:12 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.
- 2 Kings 17:12 tn Heb “about which the Lord had said to them, ‘You must not do this thing.’”
- 2 Kings 17:13 tn Heb “obey my commandments and rules according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.”
- 2 Kings 17:14 tn Heb and they stiffened their neck like the neck of their fathers.”
- 2 Kings 17:15 tn Or “and his warnings he had given them.”
- 2 Kings 17:15 tn Heb “They went [or, ‘followed’] after.” This idiom probably does not mean much if translated literally. It is found most often in Deuteronomy or in literature related to the covenant. It refers in the first instance to loyalty to God and to His covenant or His commandments (1 Kgs 14:8; 2 Chr 34:31) with the metaphor of a path or way underlying it (Deut 11:28; 28:14). To “follow other gods” was to abandon this way and this loyalty (to “abandon” or “forget” God, Judg 2:12; Hos 2:13) and to follow the customs or religious traditions of the pagan nations (2 Kgs 17:15). The classic text on “following” God or another god is 1 Kgs 18:18, 21 where Elijah taunts the people with “halting between two opinions” whether the Lord was the true God or Baal was. The idiom is often found followed by “to serve and to worship” or “they served and worshiped” such and such a god or entity (Jer 8:2; 11:10; 13:10; 16:11; 25:6; 35:15).
- 2 Kings 17:15 tn Heb “they followed after the worthless thing/things and became worthless.” The words “to the Lord” are not in the Hebrew text but are implicit from the context. There is an obvious wordplay on the verb “became worthless” and the noun “worthless thing”, which is probably to be understood collectively and to refer to idols as it does in Jer 8:19; 10:8; 14:22; Jonah 2:8.
- 2 Kings 17:15 tn Heb “and [they walked] after the nations which were around them, concerning which the Lord commanded them not to do like them.”
- 2 Kings 17:16 tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsevaʾ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.
- 2 Kings 17:16 tn Or “served.”
- 2 Kings 17:17 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 16:3.
- 2 Kings 17:17 tn Heb “they sold themselves to doing what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”
- 2 Kings 17:18 tn Heb “very angry.”
- 2 Kings 17:18 tn Heb “turned them away from his face.”
- 2 Kings 17:19 tn Heb “they walked in the practices of Israel which they did.”
- 2 Kings 17:20 tn Or “afflicted.”
- 2 Kings 17:21 tn Heb “and they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king.”
- 2 Kings 17:21 tc The consonantal text (Kethib) assumes the verb is נָדָא (nadaʾ), an alternate form of נָדָה (nadah), “push away.” The marginal reading (Qere) assumes the verb נָדָח (nadakh), “drive away.”
- 2 Kings 17:21 tn Heb “a great sin.”
- 2 Kings 17:22 tn Heb “turn away from.”
- 2 Kings 17:23 tn Heb “until.”
- 2 Kings 17:23 tn Heb “the Lord turned Israel away from his face.”
- 2 Kings 17:23 tn Heb “just as he said.”
- 2 Kings 17:24 tn The object is supplied in the translation.
- 2 Kings 17:24 sn In vv. 24-29 Samaria stands for the entire northern kingdom of Israel.
- 2 Kings 17:25 tn Heb “in the beginning of their living there.”
- 2 Kings 17:25 tn Heb “fear.”
- 2 Kings 17:26 tn Heb “and they said to the king of Assyria, saying.” The plural subject of the verb is indefinite.
- 2 Kings 17:26 tn Heb “Look, they are killing them.”
- 2 Kings 17:27 tc The second plural subject may refer to the leaders of the Assyrian army. However, some prefer to read “whom I deported,” changing the verb to a first person singular form with a third masculine plural pronominal suffix. This reading has some support from Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic witnesses.
- 2 Kings 17:27 tc Heb “and let them go and let them live there, and let him teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” The two plural verbs seem inconsistent with the preceding and following contexts, where only one priest is sent back to Samaria. The singular has the support of Greek, Syriac, and Latin witnesses.
- 2 Kings 17:28 tn Heb “fear.”
- 2 Kings 17:29 sn The verb “make” refers to the production of idols. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 210-11.
- 2 Kings 17:29 tn Heb “Samaritans.” This refers to the Israelites who had been deported from the land.
- 2 Kings 17:30 sn No deity is known by the name Sukkoth Benoth in extant Mesopotamian literature. For speculation as to the identity of this deity, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 211.
- 2 Kings 17:30 sn Nergal was a Mesopotamian god of the underworld.
- 2 Kings 17:30 sn This deity is unknown in extra-biblical literature. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 211-12.
- 2 Kings 17:31 sn Nibhaz and Tartak were two Elamite deities. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212.
- 2 Kings 17:31 sn Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of the Sepharvaim are unknown in extra-biblical literature. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212.
- 2 Kings 17:32 tn Heb “feared.”
- 2 Kings 17:32 tn Heb “and they appointed for themselves from their whole people priests for the high places and they were serving for them in the house[s] of the high places.”
- 2 Kings 17:33 tn Heb “fearing.”
- 2 Kings 17:34 tn Heb “fear.”
- 2 Kings 17:34 tn Heb “commanded.”
- 2 Kings 17:35 sn That is, the descendants of Jacob/Israel (see v. 35b).
- 2 Kings 17:36 tn Heb “and outstretched arm.”
- 2 Kings 17:40 sn This refers to the foreigners whom the king of Assyria settled in the land (see v. 35a).
2 Kings 17
King James Version
17 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 Bethel, 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 Succothbenoth, 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.
2 Reyes 17
La Palabra (España)
Oseas de Israel (731-722)
17 Oseas comenzó a reinar en Israel el año duodécimo del reinado de Ajab en Judá. 2 Ofendió al Señor, aunque no tanto como los reyes de Israel que lo precedieron. 3 Salmanasar, el rey de Asiria, lo atacó y Oseas se convirtió en vasallo tributario suyo. 4 Sin embargo, el rey de Asiria descubrió que Oseas conspiraba contra él, pues había mandado emisarios a So, el rey de Egipto, y había dejado de enviarle el tributo anual. Por ello, lo arrestó y lo metió en prisión. 5 Luego el rey de Asiria invadió el país, atacó a Samaría y la asedió durante tres años. 6 Finalmente, el año noveno de Oseas, tomó Samaría y deportó a los israelitas a Asiria, estableciéndolos en Jalaj, en las riberas del Jabor, río de Gozán, y en las ciudades de Media.
Reflexiones sobre el fin de Israel
7 Esto sucedió porque los israelitas habían pecado contra el Señor su Dios, que los sacó del país de Egipto y del poder de su rey, el faraón. Habían adorado a otros dioses, 8 imitando las costumbres de las naciones que el Señor había expulsado ante los israelitas y las costumbres que los reyes de Israel habían introducido. 9 Los israelitas hicieron cosas inadmisibles ante el Señor, su Dios: se hicieron santuarios en los montes de todas sus ciudades, desde las torres de vigía hasta las plazas fuertes 10 y erigieron columnas y postes sagrados en cualquier colina alta y bajo cualquier árbol frondoso, 11 quemando en ellos incienso como las naciones que el Señor había deportado ante ellos y cometiendo maldades que provocaron la indignación del Señor. 12 Sirvieron a los ídolos, aunque el Señor les había prohibido hacer tal cosa.
13 El Señor había advertido a Israel y a Judá, por medio de todos sus profetas y videntes: “Apartaos de vuestro mal camino y guardad mis mandatos y preceptos, de acuerdo con la ley que di a vuestros antepasados y que os transmití por medio de mis siervos, los profetas”. 14 Pero ellos no hicieron caso, se obstinaron tanto como sus antepasados que no habían confiado en el Señor su Dios, 15 y despreciaron sus decretos, la alianza que había hecho con sus antepasados y las advertencias que les había hecho. Siguieron al vacío y se quedaron vacíos; siguieron a las naciones de su alrededor, aunque el Señor les había prohibido imitarlas. 16 Abandonaron los mandamientos del Señor, su Dios: se fabricaron dos becerros de metal fundido y una representación de Astarté y adoraron a todas las fuerzas astrales y a Baal. 17 Incluso llegaron a quemar a sus hijos e hijas en sacrificio, practicaron la adivinación y la brujería y se dedicaron a ofender al Señor y a provocar su indignación. 18 Por todo ello el Señor se enfureció contra Israel, los expulsó de su presencia, y sólo quedó la tribu de Judá. 19 Pero tampoco Judá guardó los mandamientos del Señor, su Dios, sino que imitó las costumbres introducidas por Israel. 20 El Señor rechazó a toda la estirpe de Israel y la humilló, entregándola en poder de saqueadores, hasta que los expulsó de su presencia.
21 Cuando Israel se separó de la dinastía de David y eligieron rey a Jeroboán, el hijo de Nabat, Jeroboán apartó a Israel de su Señor y le hizo cometer un pecado grave. 22 En efecto, los israelitas imitaron todos los pecados de Jeroboán, sin apartarse de ellos, 23 hasta que el Señor terminó por expulsar a Israel de su presencia, como había anunciado por medio de sus siervos, los profetas, e Israel fue deportado desde su tierra a Asiria, donde permanecen hasta el presente.
Repoblación de Israel
24 El rey de Asiria trajo gente de Babilonia, Cutá, Avá, Jamat y Sefarváin y la estableció en las ciudades de Samaría, en lugar de los israelitas. Esa gente tomó posesión de Samaría y se instaló en sus ciudades. 25 Pero, como al comienzo de su instalación no respetaron al Señor, el Señor les envió leones que los devoraban. 26 Así que dijeron al rey de Asiria:
— Las gentes que has deportado y establecido en las ciudades de Samaría no conocen la religión del dios del país.
27 El rey de Asiria reaccionó dando esta orden:
— Llevad allí a alguno de los sacerdotes que habéis traído deportados; que vaya a vivir con ellos y les enseñe la religión del dios de aquel país.
28 Así, pues, uno de los sacerdotes deportados de Samaría vino a vivir a Betel, donde les estuvo enseñando a respetar al Señor. 29 Pero cada pueblo se hacía sus propios dioses en las ciudades donde cada uno vivía y los colocaba en los santuarios de los altos que habían construido los samaritanos. 30 Así, los procedentes de Babilonia hicieron una imagen de Sucot Benot; los de Cutá, una imagen de Nergal; los de Jamat, una de Asimat; 31 los de Avá hicieron imágenes de Niblat y de Tartac; y los procedentes de Sefarváin quemaban a sus hijos en sacrificio a sus dioses, Adramélec y Anarmélec. 32 También veneraban al Señor y nombraron sacerdotes a gentes de entre ellos para que prestaran servicio en los santuarios de los altos. 33 Así que, por un lado, veneraban al Señor y, por otro, daban culto a otros dioses, según la religión de la nación de donde habían sido deportados. 34 Y todavía hoy siguen portándose según sus antiguas costumbres: no veneran al Señor ni proceden según sus decretos y normas, ni según la ley y los mandamientos que el Señor dio a los hijos de Jacob, a quien puso el nombre de Israel. 35 El Señor había hecho con ellos una alianza diciéndoles:
— No veneraréis a otros dioses, ni los adoraréis; no los serviréis ni les ofreceréis sacrificios. 36 Sólo veneraréis, adoraréis y ofreceréis sacrificios al Señor que os sacó del país de Egipto con gran demostración de poder. 37 Guardaréis los decretos y normas, la ley y los mandamientos que os ha dado por escrito, para que los cumpláis siempre; no veneraréis a otros dioses. 38 No olvidaréis la alianza que he hecho con vosotros y no veneraréis a otros dioses. 39 Sólo veneraréis al Señor, vuestro Dios, y él os librará de todos vuestros enemigos.
40 Pero no hicieron caso y siguieron actuando según sus antiguas costumbres. 41 Estas gentes respetaban al Señor, pero siguieron dando culto a sus ídolos, al igual que sus hijos y nietos, haciendo lo mismo que sus antepasados hasta hoy.
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