2 Kings 17:32

New American Bible - revised edition

At the same time, they were venerating the Lord, appointing from their own number priests for the high places to officiate for them in the shrines on the high places.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:31

He also built temples on the high places and made priests from among the common people who were not Levites. Divine Disapproval.

1 Kings 12:33

Jeroboam went up to the altar he built in Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the month he arbitrarily chose. He established a feast for the Israelites, and he went up to the altar to burn incense.

1 Kings 13:31

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.

1 Kings 13:33

Even after this, Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but again made priests for the high places from among the common people. Whoever desired it was installed as a priest of the high places.

2 Kings 17:25

When they first settled there, they did not venerate the Lord, so he sent lions among them that killed some of them.

2 Kings 17:29

Thus each of these nations continued to make its own gods, setting them up in the shrines of the high places the Samarians had made: each nation in the cities in which they dwelt.

2 Kings 17:33

They were both venerating the Lord and serving their own gods. They followed the custom of the nations from among whom they had been deported.

2 Kings 17:41

But these nations were both venerating the Lord and serving their own idols. Their children and children’s children are still acting like their ancestors, to this very day.

2 Kings 23:19

Josiah also removed all the temples on the high places in the cities of Samaria which the kings of Israel had built, provoking the Lord; he did the very same to them as he had done in Bethel.

Ezra 4:2

they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of ancestral houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we seek your God just as you do, and we have sacrificed to him since the days of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, who brought us here.”

Zephaniah 1:5

And those who bow down on the roofs to the host of heaven, And those who bow down to the Lord but swear by Milcom;