Jeroboam also made shrines on the high places and made priests from the ranks of the people who were not Levites.
2 Kings 17:29 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But every nationality still made gods of their own and put them in the shrines of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nationality in the city in which they dwelt. American Standard Version (1901) Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. Common English Bible But each nationality still made its own gods. They set them up in the houses that the people of Samaria had made at the shrines. Each nationality did this in whichever cities they lived. Catholic Public Domain Version And each of the nations made gods of their own, and they placed them in the shrines of the high places, which the Samaritans had made: nation after nation, in their cities in which they were living. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the temples of the high places, which the Samaritans had made: every nation in their cities where they dwelt. |
Jeroboam also made shrines on the high places and made priests from the ranks of the people who were not Levites.
for the message that he cried out by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines of the high places in the cities of Samaria is certain to happen.’
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.
Though all the peoples walk in the name of their own gods, we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.