2 Kings 17:27 - Tree of Life Version

²⁷ 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.”

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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."

2 Kings 17:27 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 12:31

He also made shrines on the high places and appointed priests from among the people, who were not sons of Levi.

1 Kings 13:2

He cried out against the altar with the word of Adonai and said: “O altar, altar, thus says Adonai, behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and upon you will he sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”

2 Kings 17:26

Then they spoke to the king of Assyria saying, “The nations that you deported and resettled in the towns of Samaria do not know the requirement of the God of the land. Therefore He has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them because they don’t know the requirement of the God of the land.”

2 Kings 17:28

So one of the kohanim that had been deported from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Adonai.

2 Chronicles 11:15

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

Ezra 7:25

“Now you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint judges and magistrates who may administer justice to all the people in Trans-Euphrates—all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach those who do not know them.

Judges 17:13

Then Micah said, “Now I know that Adonai will do me good, seeing I have a Levite as my priest.”