2 Kings 17:27-29

Good News Translation

²⁷ So the emperor commanded: “Send back one of the priests we brought as prisoners; have him^[a] go back and live there, in order to teach the people the law of the god of that land.” ²⁸ So an Israelite priest who had been deported from Samaria went and lived in Bethel, where he taught the people how to worship the Lord.

²⁹ But the people who settled in Samaria continued to make their own idols, and they placed them in the shrines that the Israelites had built. Each different group made idols in the cities they were living in: