2 Kings 17:28
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Context17:28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. 1 He taught them how to worship 2 the Lord.
2 Kings 17:32
Context17:32 At the same time they worshiped 3 the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. 4
2 Kings 17:34
Context17:34 To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship 5 the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave 6 the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.
2 Kings 17:41
Context17:41 These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.
1 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
2 tn Heb “fear.”
3 tn Heb “feared.”
4 tn Heb “and they appointed for themselves from their whole people priests for the high places and they were serving for them in the house[s] of the high places.”
5 tn Heb “fear.”
6 tn Heb “commanded.”