2 Kings 17:27-29

Common English Bible

²⁷ So Assyria’s king commanded, “Return one of the priests that you exiled from there. He^[a] should go back and live there. He should teach them the religious practices of the local god.” ²⁸ So one of the priests who had been exiled from Samaria went back. He lived in Bethel and taught the people how to worship the Lord.

²⁹ But each nationality still made its own gods. They set them up in the houses that the people of Samaria had made at the shrines. Each nationality did this in whichever cities they lived.