The Third Circular: Second King

...of the prophet twice: and they feared it as it was. And one of the priests came, those who were the captives from Samaria, and he came and sat in Bethel and was teaching them how they should fear the Lord. And they made nations, every nation its own house, and they set up in the house of the high places that the Samaritans made, nation and nation in the cities that they dwelt in them. And the people of Babylon made Succoth-Benoth, and the people of Cuth made Nergal, and the people of Hamath made Ashima, and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak. And the people of Sepharvaim were burning their sons in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the god of Sepharvaim. And they were fearing the Lord, and they made for themselves from all the priests for the high places, and they made for themselves high places in the house of the high places. And they were fearing the Lord, and to their gods they were serving, according to the custom of the nations that came from them. (Paragraph?) Until this day they do according to the first custom, not fearing the Lord, and not doing according to their custom and according to their judgments, and according to the custom and command that the Lord commanded the sons of Jacob, the one whose name is Israel. And the Lord set with them a covenant and commanded them and said to them: that you shall not fear other gods, and you shall not worship them, and you shall not serve them, and you shall not sacrifice to them. But if to the Lord, the one who brought you up from the land of Egypt with a great power and with a high arm, to him fear, and to him worship, and to him sacrifice. And the custom and the covenant and the judgments and the commands that he wrote for you, you shall keep to do all the days, and you shall not fear other gods. And the covenant that he set with you, you shall not forget. And you shall not fear other gods. But if to the Lord your God fear, and he will save you from the hand of all your enemies. And they did not hear, but according to their first customs they were doing. And those nations were fearing the Lord, and to their idols they were serving. Even their sons and their grandsons, as their fathers did, so they are doing until today. In the fourth year of Hezekiah king of Judah: that is the same year as the seventh of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria went up upon Samaria, and besieged it three years. And he conquered it from the end of the three years. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the same year as the ninth of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was conquered. And the king of Assyria exiled Israel to Assyria, and he settled them in Halah and in Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. Because they did not hear the voice of the Lord their God, and they transgressed on his covenant, and on all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and they did not hear and they did not do. And in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria went up upon all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, and said: I have sinned, return from me, and whatever you throw upon me I will bear. And the king of Assyria threw upon Hezekiah king of Judah, three hundred talents of silver, and thirty talents of gold. And Hezekiah gave all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasury house of the king. In that time Hezekiah cut the doors of the temple of the Lord, and original: "sepe (w'al?)" that Hezekiah king of Judah delivered, and gave them to the king of Assyria. And the king of Assyria sent to Tartan and to Rabsaris and to Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah to Jerusalem, with a great power. And they went up and came to Jerusalem, and they stood in the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the way of the fuller's field. And they called to the king,