2 Kings 17:27-29

Holman Christian Standard Bible

²⁷ Then the king of Assyria issued a command: “Send back one of the priests you deported.^(A) Have him go and live there so he can teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” ²⁸ So one of the priests they had deported came and lived in Bethel,^(B) and he began to teach them how they should fear Yahweh.

²⁹ But the people of each nation were still making their own gods in the cities where they lived and putting them in the shrines of the high places that the people of Samaria had made.^(C)