2 Kings 17:32

17:32 At the same time they worshiped ¹  the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. ² 

2 Kings 17:25

17:25 When they first moved in, ³  they did not worship ⁴  the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them and the lions were killing them.

2 Kings 17:29

17:29 But each of these nations made ⁵  its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria ⁶  had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.

2 Kings 21:15

21:15 because they have done evil in my sight ⁷  and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!’”

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 tn Heb “feared.”

² 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.”

³ tn Heb “in the beginning of their living there.”

⁴ tn Heb “fear.”

⁵ sn The verb “make” refers to the production of idols. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 210-11.

⁶ tn Heb “Samaritans.” This refers to the Israelites who had been deported from the land.

⁷ tn Heb “in my eyes.”