Then the king of Assyria commanded saying, “Send there one of the kohanim whom you have exiled from there. Let them go and live there and teach them the requirement of the God of the land.”
2 Kings 17:28 - Tree of Life Version So one of the kohanim that had been deported from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Adonai. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel and taught them how they should fear and revere the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear Jehovah. Common English Bible So one of the priests who had been exiled from Samaria went back. He lived in Bethel and taught the people how to worship the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version And so, when one of the priests, who had been led away captive from Samaria, had arrived, he lived in Bethel. And he taught them how they should worship the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So one of the priests who had been carried away captive from Samaria, came and dwelt in Bethel; and taught them how they should worship the Lord. |
Then the king of Assyria commanded saying, “Send there one of the kohanim whom you have exiled from there. Let them go and live there and teach them the requirement of the God of the land.”
However, every nation kept making its own gods, and put them in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made—every nation in their cities where they settled.
So Adonai says, “Since these people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, yet their hearts are far from Me, and their fear of Me is a mitzvah taught by men.
He said to them, “I am a Hebrew and I fear Adonai God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.”
Leave them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.