2 Kings 17:28-30

Living Bible

^27-28 The king of Assyria then decreed that one of the exiled priests from Samaria should return to Israel and teach the new residents the laws of the god of the land. So one of them returned to Bethel and taught the colonists from Babylon how to worship the Lord.

²⁹ But these foreigners also worshiped their own gods. They placed them in the shrines on the hills near their cities. ³⁰ Those from Babylon worshiped idols of their god Succoth-benoth; those from Cuth worshiped their god Nergal; and the men of Hamath worshiped Ashima.