²⁷ Then the king of Assyria gave this order: “Have one of the priests you took captive from Samaria go back to live there and teach the people what the god of the land requires.”

¹⁵ when he appointed^(A) his own priests^(B) for the high places and for the goat^(C) and calf^(D) idols he had made.

² By the word of the Lord he cried out against the altar: “Altar, altar! This is what the Lord says: ‘A son named Josiah^(A) will be born to the house of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places^(B) who make offerings here, and human bones will be burned on you.’”

³¹ Jeroboam built shrines^(A) on high places and appointed priests^(B) from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites.

¹³ And Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, since this Levite has become my priest.”^(A)