2 Kings 17:28

17:28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. 1  He taught them how to worship 2  the Lord.

2 Kings 17:32

17:32 At the same time they worshiped 3  the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. 4 

2 Kings 17:34

17:34 To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship 5  the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave 6  the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.

2 Kings 17:41

17:41 These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.

1 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

2 tn Heb “fear.”

3 tn Heb “feared.”

4 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.”

5 tn Heb “fear.”

6 tn Heb “commanded.”