2 Kings 17:27

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.”

Cross References

1 Kings 12:31

He also made houses on high places and appointed priests from among all the people who were not Levites.

1 Kings 13:2

And he cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: A son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer incense on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.”

2 Kings 17:26

So the king of Assyria was told, “The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land; therefore he has sent lions among them; they are killing them because they do not know the law of the god of the land.”

2 Kings 17:28

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.

2 Chronicles 11:15

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

Ezra 7:25

“And you, Ezra, according to the God-given wisdom you possess, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River who know the laws of your God, and you shall teach those who do not know them.

Judges 17:13

Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me because the Levite has become my priest.”