Discovery Box2 Kings 17:29 
Context17:29 But each of these nations made 1 its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria 2 had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.
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
1 sn The verb “make” refers to the production of idols. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 210-11.
2 tn Heb “Samaritans.” This refers to the Israelites who had been deported from the land.
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.”
