2 Kings 17:32 - The Scriptures 1998

³² They also feared יהוה, and from every class they made for themselves priests of the high places, who offered for them in the house of the high places.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³² So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³² So they feared the Lord, yet appointed from among themselves, whether high or low, priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.

American Standard Version (1901)

³² So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

Common English Bible

³² They also worshipped the LORD, but they appointed priests for the shrines from their whole population. These priests worked in the houses at the shrines.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³² But nevertheless, they worshipped the Lord. Then they made for themselves, from the least of the people, priests of the high places. And they placed them in the shrines of the high places.

2 Kings 17:32 Cross References

1 Kings 12:31

And he made the house of high places, and made priests from all sorts of people, who were not of the sons of Lĕ

1 Kings 12:33

And he made offerings on the altar which he had made at Bĕ

1 Kings 13:31

And it came to be, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I am dead, then you shall bury me in the tomb where the man of Elohim is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.

1 Kings 13:33

After this event Yaroḇ

2 Kings 17:25

And it came to be, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they did not fear יהוה, and יהוה  sent lions among them, which kept on slaying among them.

2 Kings 17:29

But every nation was making mighty ones of its own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Shomeronites had made, every nation in the cities where they dwelt.

2 Kings 17:33

They were fearing יהוה, and they were serving their own mighty ones, according to the ruling of the nations from among whom they had been exiled.

2 Kings 17:41

So these nations were fearing יהוה, and served their carved images, both their children and their children’s children. As their fathers did, they are doing to this day.

2 Kings 23:19

And Yoshiyahu also took away all the houses of the high places that were in the cities of Shomeron, which the sovereigns of Yisra’ĕ

Ezra 4:2

they came to Zerubbaḇ

Zephaniah 1:5

and those bowing down to the host of the heavens on the house-tops, and those bowing themselves, swearing by יהוה  and swearing by Malkam;