But the king of Assyria caught Hoshea in an act of treachery: he had sent envoys to King So of Egypt, and he had not paid the tribute to the king of Assyria, as in previous years. And the king of Assyria arrested him and put him in prison.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וימצא
147
מלךאשור
597
בהושע
383
קשר
600
אשר
501
שלח
338
מלאכים
141
אלסוא
98
מלךמצרים
470
ולאהעלה
147
מנחה
103
למלך
120
אשור
507
כשנה
375
בשנה
357
ויעצרהו
387
מלך
90
אשור
507
ויאסרהו
288
בית
412
כלא
51
II Kings 17:5
Gematria: 3224
ויעלמלךאשורבכלהארץויעלשמרוןויצרעליהשלששנים
Then the king of Assyria marched against the whole land; he came to Samaria and besieged it for three years.
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He deported the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, at the [River] Habor, at the River Gozan, and in the towns of Media.
This happened because the Israelites sinned against the ETERNAL their God, who had freed them from the land of Egypt, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods
The Israelites committedacommitted Meaning of Heb. uncertain. against the ETERNAL their God acts that were not right: They built for themselves shrines in all their settlements, from watchtowers to fortified cities;
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויחפאו
111
בניישראל
603
דברים
256
אשר
501
לאכן
101
עליהוה
126
אלהיהם
91
ויבנו
74
להם
75
במות
448
בכלעריהם
377
ממגדל
117
נוצרים
396
עדעיר
354
מבצר
332
II Kings 17:10
Gematria: 2923
ויצבולהםמצבותואשריםעלכלגבעהגבההותחתכלעץרענן
they set up pillars and sacred postsbsacred posts See note at 13.6. for themselves on every lofty hill and under every leafy tree;
and they offered sacrifices there, at all the shrines, like the nations whom GOD had driven into exile before them. They committed wicked acts to provoke GOD’s anger,
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויקטרושם
671
בכלבמות
500
כגוים
79
אשרהגלה
544
יהוה
26
מפניהם
225
ויעשו
392
דברים
256
רעים
320
להכעיס
195
אתיהוה
427
II Kings 17:12
Gematria: 2495
ויעבדוהגלליםאשראמריהוהלהםלאתעשואתהדברהזה
and they worshiped fetishes concerning which GOD had said to them, “You must not do this thing.”
GOD
warned Israel and Judah by every prophet [and] every seer, saying: “Turn back from your wicked ways, and observe My commandments and My laws, according to all the Teaching that I commanded your ancestors and that I transmitted to you through My servants the prophets.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויעד
90
יהוה
26
בישראל
543
וביהודה
38
ביד
16
כלנביאי
123
נביאו
69
כלחזה
70
לאמר
271
שבו
308
מדרכיכם
334
הרעים
325
ושמרו
552
מצותי
546
חקותי
524
ככלהתורה
686
אשר
501
צויתי
516
אתאבתיכם
874
ואשר
507
שלחתי
748
אליכם
101
ביד
16
עבדי
86
הנביאים
118
II Kings 17:14
Gematria: 3248
ולאשמעוויקשואתערפםכערףאבותםאשרלאהאמינוביהוהאלהיהם
But they did not obey; they stiffened their necks, like their ancestors who did not have faith in the ETERNAL their God;
they spurned God’s laws and the covenant that had been made with their ancestors, and the warnings they had been given. They went after delusion and were deluded; [they imitated] the nations that were about them, which GOD had forbidden them to emulate.
They rejected all the commandments of the ETERNAL their God; they made molten idols for themselves—two calves—and they made a sacred postcsacred post See note at 13.6. and they bowed down to all the host of heaven, and they worshiped Baal.
They consigned their sons and daughters to the fire; they practiced augury and divination, and gave themselves over to what was displeasing to GOD—and provoked anger.
So GOD spurned all the offspring of Israel, and afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, and finally cast them out from the divine presence.
For Israel broke away from the House of David, and they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king. Jeroboam caused Israel to stray from GOD and to commit great sin,
Word-by-Word Analysis
כיקרע
400
ישראל
541
מעל
140
בית
412
דוד
14
וימליכו
122
אתירבעם
723
בןנבט
113
וידא
21
וידח
28
ירבעם
322
אתישראל
942
מאחרי
259
יהוה
26
והחטיאם
79
חטאה
23
גדולה
48
II Kings 17:22
Gematria: 2781
וילכובניישראלבכלחטאותירבעםאשרעשהלאסרוממנה
and the Israelites persisted in all the sins that Jeroboam had committed; they did not depart from them.
In the end, GOD removed Israel from the divine presence, as they had been warned through all God’s servants the prophets. So the Israelites were deported from their land to Assyria, as is still the case.
The king of Assyria brought [people] from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and he settled them in the towns of Samaria in place of the Israelites; they took possession of Samaria and dwelt in its towns.
They said to the king of Assyria: “The nations that you deported and resettled in the towns of Samaria do not know the rules of the God of the land; therefore [that God] has let lions loose against them that are killing them—for they do not know the rules of the God of the land.”
The king of Assyria gave an order: “Send there one of the priests whom you have deported; let himdhim Heb. “them.” go and dwell there, and let him teach them the practices of the God of the land.”
However, each nation continued to make its own gods and to set them up in the cult places that had been made by the people of Samaria; each nation [set them up] in the towns in which it lived.
To this day, they follow their former practices. They do not worship GOD [properly]. They do not follow the laws and practices, the Teaching and Instruction that GOD enjoined upon the descendants of Jacob—who was given the name Israel—
having made a covenant with them and commanding them: “You shall worship no other gods; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them nor sacrifice to them.
You must worship only the ETERNAL your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great might and with an outstretched arm: to whom alone shall you bow down and to whom alone shall you sacrifice.
You shall observe faithfully, all your days, the laws and the practices; the Teaching and Instruction that IeI Heb. “He.” wrote down for you; do not worship other gods.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואתהחקים
570
ואתהמשפטים
891
והתורה
622
והמצוה
152
אשר
501
כתב
422
לכם
90
תשמרון
996
לעשות
806
כלהימים
155
ולא
37
תיראו
617
אלהים
86
אחרים
259
II Kings 17:38
Gematria: 3979
והבריתאשרכרתיאתכםלאתשכחוולאתיראואלהיםאחרים
Do not forget the covenant that I made with you; do not worship other gods.
Word-by-Word Analysis
והברית
623
אשרכרתי
1131
אתכם
461
לא
31
תשכחו
734
ולא
37
תיראו
617
אלהים
86
אחרים
259
II Kings 17:39
Gematria: 2027
כיאםאתיהוהאלהיכםתיראווהואיצילאתכםמידכלאיביכם
Worship only the ETERNAL your God, and you will be saved from the hands of all your enemies.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
כי
30
אםאתיהוה
468
אלהיכם
106
תיראו
617
והוא
18
יציל
140
אתכם
461
מיד
54
כלאיביכם
133
II Kings 17:40
Gematria: 2040
ולאשמעוכיאםכמשפטםהראשוןהםעשים
But they did not obey; they continued their former practices.