2 Kings 17:27 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁷ Then the king of Assyria issued a command: ‘Send back one of the priests you deported.  Make him go and live there so he can teach them the requirements of the god of the land.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ Then the king of Assyria commanded, Take to Samaria one of the priests you brought from there, and let him [and his helpers] go and live there and let him teach the people the law of the God of the land.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.

Common English Bible

²⁷ So Assyria’s king commanded, “Return one of the priests that you exiled from there. He should go back and live there. He should teach them the religious practices of the local god.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ Then the king of the Assyrians commanded, saying: "Lead to that place one of the priests, whom you brought as a captive from there. And let him go and live with them. And let him teach them the ordinances of the God of the land."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ And the king of the Assyrians commanded, saying: Carry thither one of the priests whom you brought from thence captive. And let him go, and dwell with them: and let him teach them the ordinances of the God of the land.

2 Kings 17:27 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 12:31

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

1 Kings 13:2

The man of God cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord: ‘Altar, altar, this is what the Lord says, “A son will be born to the house of David, named Josiah, and he will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who are burning incense on you. Human bones will be burned on you.” ’

2 Kings 17:26

The settlers said to the king of Assyria, ‘The nations that you have deported and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them that are killing them because the people don’t know the requirements of the god of the land.’

2 Kings 17:28

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.

2 Chronicles 11:15

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

Ezra 7:25

And you, Ezra, according to  God’s wisdom that you possess, appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people in the region west of the Euphrates who know the laws of your God and to teach anyone who does not know them.

Judges 17:13

Then Micah said, ‘Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.’