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2 Kings 17:32

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They feared the Lord, but they also made from their ranks priests for the high places, who were working for them at the shrines of the high places.

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


But the people of each nation were still making their own gods in the cities where they lived and putting them in the shrines of the high places that the people of Samaria had made.


those who bow in worship on the rooftops to the stars in the sky; those who bow and pledge loyalty to the  Lord but also pledge loyalty to Milcom;  ,


Josiah also removed all the shrines of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to anger the Lord.  Josiah did the same things to them that he had done at Bethel.


Even after this,  Jeroboam did not repent  of his evil way but again made priests for the high places from the ranks of the people.  He ordained whoever so desired it, and they became priests of the high places.


After he had buried him, he said to his sons, ‘When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones,


When they first lived there, they did not fear the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, which killed some of them.


They feared the Lord, but they also worshipped their own gods  according to the practice of the nations from which they had been deported.


they approached Zerubbabel and the family heads and said to them, ‘Let us build with you, for we also worship your God and have been sacrificing to him  since the time King Esar-haddon of Assyria brought us here.’


He offered sacrifices on  the altar he had set up in Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. He chose this month on his own.  He made a festival for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.


They feared the Lord but also served their idols. Still today, their children and grandchildren continue doing as their ancestors did.





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