2 Kings 17:27-29

EasyEnglish Bible

²⁷ The king of Assyria replied, ‘You took some Israelite priests away from Samaria as prisoners. Send one of them back to live there. Then he can teach the people what the god of that country wants them to do.’

²⁸ So they sent back one of the priests that they had caught and taken away to Assyria. He went to live in Bethel. He taught the people how to worship the Lord properly.

²⁹ But the people of each nation that had gone to live in Samaria made their own idols to worship.^[a] They put them at the altars that the Israelites had built on the hills. They did this in each town where they lived.