2 Kings 17:24-26

Good News Translation

The Assyrians Settle in Israel

²⁴ The emperor of Assyria took people from the cities of Babylon, Cuth, Ivvah, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria^[a] in place of the exiled Israelites. They took possession of these cities and lived there. ²⁵ When they first settled there, they did not worship the Lord, and so he sent lions, which killed some of them. ²⁶ The emperor of Assyria was told that the people he had settled in the cities of Samaria did not know the law of the god of that land, and so the god had sent lions, which were killing them.