2 Kings 17:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel; he taught them how they should worship the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel and taught them how they should fear and revere the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear Jehovah.

Common English Bible

²⁸ So one of the priests who had been exiled from Samaria went back. He lived in Bethel and taught the people how to worship the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ And so, when one of the priests, who had been led away captive from Samaria, had arrived, he lived in Bethel. And he taught them how they should worship the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ So one of the priests who had been carried away captive from Samaria, came and dwelt in Bethel; and taught them how they should worship the Lord.

2 Kings 17:28 Cross References

2 Kings 17:27

Then the king of Assyria commanded, “Send there one of the priests whom you carried away from there; let him go and live there and teach them the law of the god of the land.”

2 Kings 17:29

But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the people of Samaria had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived;

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,

Jonah 1:9

“I am a Hebrew,” he replied. “I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.”

John 4:22

You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.