2 Kings 17:27

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then the king of Assyria issued a command: ‘Send back one of the priests you deported.  Make him go and live there so he can teach them the requirements of the god of the land.’

Cross References

2 Chronicles 11:15

Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places,  the goat-demons,  and the golden calves he had made.

1 Kings 13:2

The man of God cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord: ‘Altar, altar, this is what the Lord says, “A son will be born to the house of David, named Josiah, and he will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who are burning incense on you. Human bones will be burned on you.” ’

1 Kings 12:31

Jeroboam also made shrines  on the high places  and made priests from the ranks of the people who were not Levites.

Judges 17:13

Then Micah said, ‘Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.’

2 Kings 17:26

The settlers said to the king of Assyria, ‘The nations that you have deported and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them that are killing them because the people don’t know the requirements of the god of the land.’

2 Kings 17:28

So one of the priests they had deported came and lived in Bethel,  and he began to teach them how they should fear the Lord.

Ezra 7:25

And you, Ezra, according to  God’s wisdom that you possess, appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people in the region west of the Euphrates who know the laws of your God and to teach anyone who does not know them.