2 Kings 17:27-29
17:27 So the king of Assyria ordered, “Take back one of the priests whom you
deported from there. He must settle there and teach them the requirements of the God of the land.”
17:28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel.
He taught them how to worship
the
Lord.
17:29 But each of these nations made its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.
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.
Ezra 4:2
4:2 they came to Zerubbabel and the leaders
and said to them, “Let us help you build,
for like you we seek your God and we have been sacrificing to him
from the time
of King Esarhaddon
of Assyria, who brought us here.”
Acts 17:23
17:23 For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship,
I even found an altar with this inscription:
‘To an unknown god.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing it,
this I proclaim to you.
Acts 17:30
17:30 Therefore, although God has overlooked
such times of ignorance,
he now commands all people
everywhere to repent,