2 Kings 17:27-29

Revised Standard Version

²⁷ Then the king of Assyria commanded, “Send there one of the priests whom you carried away thence; and let him^[a] go and dwell there, and teach them the law of the god of the land.” ²⁸ So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samar′ia came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the Lord.

²⁹ But every nation still made gods of its own, and put them in the shrines of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they dwelt;