2 Kings 17:27-29

New Catholic Bible

²⁷ The king of Assyria commanded, “Carry one of the priests there whom you deported. Let him go and dwell there to teach them the law of the God of the land.”

²⁸ One of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria went and dwelt in Bethel. He taught them how to fear the Lord. ²⁹ But all the nations still made their own gods, and they placed their shrines on the high places which the Samaritans had made, each nation in their own cities where they dwelt.