Salmanasar king of Assyrians maketh Osee king of Israel tributary, and perceiving his endeavour to be delivered thereof, imprisoneth him; after three years siege taketh Samaria, and carrieth the people captive into Assyria. 7. All which God permitteth for divers great sins here recited. 25. The new inhabitants of the country not knowing God, are devoured by lions. Whereupon a true priest is sent to instruct them. 29. but they leaving the rites of true religion do mix the same with idolatry.Salmanasar king of Assyrians maketh Osee king of Israel tributarie, and perceuing his endeuour to be deliuered therof, imprisoneth him; after three yeares siege taketh Samaria, and carieth the people captiue into Assyria. 7. Al which God permitteth for diuers great sinnes here recited. 25. The new inhabitantes of the countrie not knowing God, are deuoured by lions. VVherupon a true priest is sent to instruct them. 29. but they leauing the rites of true religion do mixt the same with idolatrie.✦
In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda, reigned Osee the son of Ela in Samaria over Israel nine years.IN the twelfth yeare of Achaz king of Iuda, reigned Osee the sonne of Ela in Samaria ouer Israel nine yeares.✦Anno duodecimo Achaz regis Juda, regnavit Osee filius Ela in Samaria super Israël novem annis.
2And he did evil before our Lord: but not as the kings of Israel, that had been before him.And he did euil before our Lord: but not as the kinges of Israel, that had bene before him.✦Fecitque malum coram Domino, sed non sicut reges Israël qui ante eum fuerant.
3Against him came up Salmanasar king of the Assyrians, and Osee was made servant to him, and paid him tributes.Against him came vp Salmanasar king of the Assyrians, and Osee was made seruant to him, and payd him tributes.✦Contra hunc ascendit Salmanasar rex Assyriorum, et factus est ei Osee servus, reddebatque illi tributa.
4And when the king of the Assyrians had found, that Osee endeavouring to rebel had sent messengers to Sua the king of Egypt, that he might not pay tributes to the king of the Assyrians, as every year he was accustomed, he besieged him, and cast him bound into prison.And when the king of the Assyrians had found, that Osee endeuoring to rebel had sent messengers to Sua the king of Ægypt, that he might not pay tributes to the king of the Assyrians, as euery yeare he was accustomed, he besieged him, and cast him blound into prison.Cumque deprehendisset rex Assyriorum Osee, quod rebellare nitens misisset nuntios ad Sua regem Ægypti ne præstaret tributa regi Assyriorum sicut singulis annis solitus erat, obsedit eum, et vinctum misit in carcerem.
5And he ranged through all the land: and going up to Samaria, he besieged it three years.And he ranged through al the land: and going vp to Samaria, he besieged it three yeares.Pervagatusque est omnem terram : et ascendens Samariam, obsedit eam tribus annis.
6And in the ninth year of Osee, the king of Assyrians took Samaria, and transferred Israel unto the Assyrians: and he put them in Hala, and in Habor beside the river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.And in the ninth yeare of Osee, the king of Assyrians tooke Samaria, and transferred Israel vnto the Assyrians: and he put them in Hala, and in Habor beside the riuer of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.✦Anno autem nono Osee, cepit rex Assyriorum Samariam, et transtulit Israël in Assyrios : posuitque eos in Hala et in Habor juxta fluvium Gozan, in civitatibus Medorum.
7For it came to pass, when the children of Israel had sinned to our Lord their God, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and out of the hand of Pharao the king of Egypt, they worshipped alienos: foreign, alien (not odd or unfamiliar) gods.For it came to passe, when the children of Israel had sinned to our Lord their God, which brought them out of the land of Ægypt, and out of the hand of Pharao the king of Ægypt, they worshipped strange goddes.Factum est enim, cum peccassent filii Israël Domino Deo suo, qui eduxerat eos de terra Ægypti, de manu Pharaonis regis Ægypti, coluerunt deos alienos.
8And they walked according to the rite of the Gentiles, which our Lord had consumed in the sight of the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel: because they had done in like manner.And they walked according to the rite of the Gentiles, which our Lord had consumed in the sight of the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel: because they had done in like maner.Et ambulaverunt juxta ritum gentium quas consumpserat Dominus in conspectu filiorum Israël et regum Israël, quia similiter fecerant.
9And the children of Israel offended our Lord their God with words not right: and built them excelsa: the high places (idolatrous hill-shrines) in all their cities from the Tower of watchmen unto the munitam: fortified, walled city.And the children of Israel offended our Lord their God with wordes not right: & built them excelses in al their cities from the Towre of watchmen vnto the fensed citie.✦Et offenderunt filii Israël verbis non rectis Dominum Deum suum : et ædificaverunt sibi excelsa in cunctis urbibus suis, a turre custodum usque ad civitatem munitam.
10And they made them statues and lucos: sacred groves, idol-groves (the Asherah) on every high hill, and under every thick woody tree:And they made them statues & groues on euerie high hil, and vnder euerie thicke woddie tree:Feceruntque sibi statuas et lucos in omni colle sublimi, et subter omne lignum nemorosum :
11and burnt there incense upon the altars after the manner of the Gentiles, which our Lord removed from their face: and they did wicked things, provoking our Lord.and burnt there incense vpon the altars after the maner of the Gentiles, which our Lord remoued from their face: and they did wicked things, prouoking our Lord.✦et adolebant ibi incensum super aras in morem gentium quas transtulerat Dominus a facie eorum : feceruntque verba pessima irritantes Dominum.
12And they worshipped the immunditias: filthy things, abominations (the idols), whereof our Lord commanded them, that thou should not do this thing.And they worshipped the filthes, wherof our Lord commanded them, that thou should not doe this thing.Et coluerunt immunditias de quibus præcepit eis Dominus ne facerent verbum hoc.
13And our Lord testificatus est: solemnly warned, gave witness against in Israel and in Juda by the hand of all the Prophets and Seers, saying: Return from your most wicked ways, and keep my precepts, and ceremonies according to all the law, which I commanded your fathers: and as I have sent to you in the hand of my servants the Prophets.And our Lord testified in Israel and in Iuda by the hand of al the Prophetes and Seers, saying: Returne from your most wicked wayes, and keepe my precepts, and ceremonies according to al the law, which I commanded your fathers: and as I haue sent to you in the hand of my seruantes the Prophetes.✦Et testificatus est Dominus in Israël et in Juda per manum omnium prophetarum et videntium, dicens : Revertimini a viis vestris pessimis, et custodite præcepta mea et cæremonias, juxta omnem legem quam præcepi patribus vestris, et sicut misi ad vos in manu servorum meorum prophetarum.
14Who heard not, but hardened their neck according to the neck of their fathers, who would not obey our Lord their God.Who heard not, but hardened their necke according to the necke of their fathers, who would not obey our Lord their God.Qui non audierunt, sed induraverunt cervicem suam juxta cervicem patrum suorum, qui noluerunt obedire Domino Deo suo.
15And they cast away his ordinances, and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testifications, wherewith he contestatus est: solemnly charged, witnessed against (not disputed) them: and they followed vanities, and did vainly: and they followed the Gentiles, that were round about them, concerning which our Lord had commanded them, that they should not do as they did.And they cast away his ordinances, and the couenant that he made with their fathers, and the testifications, wherwith he contested them: and they folowed vanities, and did vaynly: and they folowed the Gentiles, that were round about them, concerning which our Lord had commanded them, that they should not doe as they did.✦Et abjecerunt legitima ejus, et pactum quod pepigit cum patribus eorum, et testificationes quibus contestatus est eos : secutique sunt vanitates, et vane egerunt : et secuti sunt gentes quæ erant per circuitum eorum, super quibus præceperat Dominus eis ut non facerent sicut et illæ faciebant.
16And they forsook all the precepts of our Lord their God: and made to themselves two conflatiles: cast (from molten metal) calves, and groves, and adored all the militiam: the array, the multitude (the heavenly bodies); not a guest or the Eucharistic Host of heaven: and they served Baal,And they forsooke al the preceptes of our Lord their God: and made to them selues two molten calues, and groues, and adored al the hoste of heauen: and they serued Baal,✦Et dereliquerunt omnia præcepta Domini Dei sui : feceruntque sibi conflatiles duos vitulos, et lucos, et adoraverunt universam militiam cæli : servieruntque Baal,
17and consecraverunt: dedicated, devoted (to the idols' rites) their sons, and their daughters through fire: and they gave themselves to divinationibus: fortune-telling, the divining of omens, and auguriis: auguries, the reading of omens: and they delivered up themselves to do evil before our Lord, that they might provoke him.and consecrated their sonnes, and their daughters through fyre: and they gaue themselues to deuinations, and soothsayings: and they deliuered vp themselues to doe euil before our Lord, that they might prouoke him.et consecraverunt filios suos et filias suas per ignem : et divinationibus inserviebant, et auguriis : et tradiderunt se ut facerent malum coram Domino, ut irritarent eum.
18And our Lord was wrath with Israel vehemently, and took them away from his sight, and there remained but the tribe of Juda only.And our Lord was wrath with Israel vehemently, and tooke them away from his sight, and there remayned but the tribe of Iuda onlie.Iratusque est Dominus vehementer Israëli, et abstulit eos a conspectu suo, et non remansit nisi tribus Juda tantummodo.
19But neither Juda itself kept the commandments of our Lord their God: but walked in the errors of Israel, which it had wrought.But neither Iuda it self kept the commandementes of our Lord their God: but walked in the errours of Israel, which it had wrought.Sed nec ipse Juda custodivit mandata Domini Dei sui : verum ambulavit in erroribus Israël, quos operatus fuerat.
20And our Lord rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of the diripientium: plunderers, despoilers (not those who ruin), till he threw them away from his face:And our Lord reiected al the seede of Israel, and afflicted them, & deliuered them into the hand of the spoylers, til he threwe them away from his face:✦Projecitque Dominus omne semen Israël, et afflixit eos, et tradidit eos in manu diripientium, donec projiceret eos a facie sua :
21even now from that time, when Israel was rent from the house of David, and made Jeroboam the son of Nabat their king: for Jeroboam separated Israel from our Lord, and made them sin a great sin.euen now from that time, when Israel was rent from the house of Dauid, and made Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat their king: for Ieroboam seperated Israel from our Lord, and made them sinne a great sinne.ex eo jam tempore quo scissus est Israël a domo David, et constituerunt sibi regem Jeroboam filium Nabat : separavit enim Jeroboam Israël a Domino, et peccare eos fecit peccatum magnum.
22And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam, which he had done: and they departed not from them,And the children of Israel walked in al the sinnes of Ieroboam, which he had done: and they departed not from them,Et ambulaverunt filii Israël in universis peccatis Jeroboam quæ fecerat : et non recesserunt ab eis,
23until our Lord took away Israel from his face, as he had spoken in the hand of all his servants the Prophets: and Israel was transported out of their land unto the Assyrians, until this day.vntil our Lord tooke away Israel from his face, as he had spoken in the hand of al his seruantes the Prophetes: and Israel was transported out of their land vnto the Assyrians, vntil this day.usquequo Dominus auferret Israël a facie sua, sicut locutus fuerat in manu omnium servorum suorum prophetarum : translatusque est Israël de terra sua in Assyrios, usque in diem hanc.
24And the king of the Assyrians brought from Babylon, and from Cutha, and from Avah, and from Emath, and from Sepharvaim: and placed them in the cities of Samaria for the children of Israel: who possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.And the king of the Assyrians brought from Babylon, and from Cutha, and from Auah, and from Emath, and from Sepharuaim: and placed them in the cities of Samaria for the children of Israel: who possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities therof.✦Adduxit autem rex Assyriorum de Babylone, et de Cutha, et de Avah, et de Emath, et de Sepharvaim : et collocavit eos in civitatibus Samariæ pro filiis Israël : qui possederunt Samariam, et habitaverunt in urbibus ejus.
25And when they began to dwell there, they feared not our Lord: and our Lord sent lions upon them, which killed them.And when they began to dwel there, they feared not our Lord: and our Lord sent lions vpon them, which killed them.Cumque ibi habitare cœpissent, non timebant Dominum : et immisit in eos Dominus leones, qui interficiebant eos.
26And it was told the king of the Assyrians, and said. The nations, which thou hast transferred, and made to dwell in the cities of Samaria, know not the ordinances of the God of the land: and the Lord hath sent lions upon them: and behold they kill them, for that they know not the rite of the God of the land.And it was told the king of the Assyrians, and sayd. The nations, which thou hast transferred, and made to dwel in the cities of Samaria, know not the ordinances of the God of the land: and the Lord hath sent lions vpon them: and behold they kil them, for that they know not the rite of the God of the land.✦Nuntiatumque est regi Assyriorum, et dictum : Gentes quas transtulisti, et habitare fecisti in civitatibus Samariæ, ignorant legitima Dei terræ : et immisit in eos Dominus leones, et ecce interficiunt eos, eo quod ignorent ritum Dei terræ.
27And the king of the Assyrians commanded, saying: Bring thither one of the priests, which you brought thence captive, and let him go, and dwell with them: and let him teach them the ordinances of the God of the land.And the king of the Assyrians commanded, saying: Bring thither one of the priestes, which you brought thence captiue, and let him goe, and dwel with them: and let him teach them the ordinances of the God of the land.Præcepit autem rex Assyriorum, dicens : Ducite illuc unum de sacerdotibus quos inde captivos adduxistis, et vadat, et habitet cum eis : et doceat eos legitima Dei terræ.
28Therefore when one of those priests, which were led captive from Samaria, was come, he dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should worship our Lord.Therfore when one of those priests, which were led captiue from Samaria, was come, he dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should worship our Lord.Igitur cum venisset unus de sacerdotibus his qui captivi ducti fuerant de Samaria, habitavit in Bethel, et docebat eos quomodo colerent Dominum.
29And every Nation framed their own god, and put them in the high fanis: shrines, pagan fanes, which the Samaritans had made, Nation and Nation in their cities, where they dwelt.And euerie Nation framed their owne god, and put them in the highe temples, which the Samaritanes had made, Nation and Nation in their cities, where they dwelt.Et unaquæque gens fabricata est deum suum : posueruntque eos in fanis excelsis quæ fecerant Samaritæ, gens et gens in urbibus suis, in quibus habitabat.
30For the men of Babylon made Socothbenoth: and the Cutheites made Nergel: and the men of Emath made Asima.For the men of Babylon made Socothbenoth: and the Cutheites made Nergel: and the men of Emath made Asima.✦Viri enim Babylonii fecerunt Sochothbenoth : viri autem Cuthæi fecerunt Nergel : et viri de Emath fecerunt Asima.
31Moreover the Heveites made Nebahaz and Tharthac. And they that were of Sepharvaim burnt their children in fire, to Adramelech, and Anamelech the gods of Sepharvaim.Moreouer the Heueites made Nebahaz & Tharthac. And they that were of Sepharuaim burnt their children in fyre, to Adramelech, and Anamelech the goddes of Sepharuaim.Porro Hevæi fecerunt Nebahaz et Tharthac. Hi autem qui erant de Sepharvaim, comburebant filios suos igni, Adramelech et Anamelech diis Sepharvaim,
32and nevertheless they worshipped our Lord. And they made to themselves of the vilest persons priests of the excelses, and they placed them in the high temples.and neuetheles they worshipped our Lord. And they made to themselues of the vilest persones priestes of the excelses, and they placed them in the highe temples.et nihilominus colebant Dominum. Fecerunt autem sibi de novissimis sacerdotes excelsorum, et ponebant eos in fanis sublimibus.
33And when they worshipped our Lord, they served also their own gods according to the custom of the Nations out of the which they were transported to Samaria:And when they worshipped our Lord, they serued also their owne goddes according to the custome of the Nations out of the which they were transported to Samaria:✦Et cum Dominum colerent, diis quoque suis serviebant juxta consuetudinem gentium, de quibus translati fuerant Samariam.
34until this present day they follow the old manner: they fear not our Lord, neither keep they his ceremonies, and judgements, and law, and the commandment, which our Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he surnamed Israel:vntil this present day they folow the old maner: they feare not our Lord, neither keepe they his ceremonies, and iudgementes, and law, and the commandemet, which our Lord commanded the children of Iacob, whom he surnamed Israel:Usque in præsentem diem morem sequuntur antiquum : non timent Dominum, neque custodiunt cæremonias ejus, judicia, et legem, et mandatum, quod præceperat Dominus filiis Jacob, quem cognominavit Israël :
35and he had made a covenant with them, and had commanded them, saying: Fear not strange gods, and adore them not, neither worship them, and immolate not to them.and he had made a couenant with them, & had commanded them, saying: Feare not strange goddes, and adore them not, neither worship them, and immolate not to them.et percusserat cum eis pactum, et mandaverat eis, dicens : Nolite timere deos alienos, et non adoretis eos, neque colatis eos, et non immoletis eis :
36But the Lord your God, which brought you out of the Land of Egypt in great strength, and a stretched out arm, him fear ye, and him adore, and to him do ye immolate.But the Lord your God, which brought you out of the Land of Ægypt in great strength, and a stretched out arme, him feare ye, and him adore, and to him doe ye immolate.sed Dominum Deum vestrum, qui eduxit vos de terra Ægypti in fortitudine magna et in brachio extento, ipsum timete, et illum adorate, et ipsi immolate.
37The ceremonies also, and judgements, and law, and the commandment, that he wrote you, keep ye, that you may do them always: and fear not strange gods.The ceremonies also, and iudgementes, and law, and the commandment, that he wrote you, kepe ye, that you may doe them alwaies: and feare not strange goddes.Cæremonias quoque, et judicia, et legem, et mandatum, quod scripsit vobis, custodite ut faciatis cunctis diebus : et non timeatis deos alienos.
38And the covenant, that he made with you, forget not: neither do ye worship strange gods,And the couenant, that he made with you, forget not: neither doe ye worship strange goddes,Et pactum quod percussit vobiscum, nolite oblivisci : nec colatis deos alienos,
39but fear our Lord your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.but feare our Lord your God, and he wil deliuer you out of the hand of al your enemies.sed Dominum Deum vestrum timete, et ipse eruet vos de manu omnium inimicorum vestrorum.
40But they heard not, but did according to their old custom.But they heard not, but did according to their old custome.Illi vero non audierunt, sed juxta consuetudinem suam pristinam perpetrabant.
41These Nations therefore were fearing of our Lord but nevertheless serving their idols also: for both their children and nepotes: grandsons, descendants (not a sibling's sons), as their fathers did, so do they until this present day.These Nations therfore were fearing of our Lord but neuerthelesse seruing their idols also: for both their children and nephewes, as their fathers did, soe doe they vntil this present day.✦Fuerunt igitur gentes istæ timentes quidem Dominum, sed nihilominus et idolis suis servientes : nam et filii eorum, et nepotes, sicut fecerunt patres sui, ita faciunt usque in præsentem diem.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.