◄ 2 Kings 17:28 ►
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Good News Translation
So an Israelite priest who had been deported from Samaria went and lived in Bethel, where he taught the people how to worship the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
One of the Israelite priests was chosen to go back to Israel. He lived in Bethel and taught the people how to worship the LORD.

New American Bible
So one of the priests who had been deported from Samaria returned and settled in Bethel, and began to teach them how to venerate the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

in Bethel

1 Kings 12:29-32 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other in Dan: . . .

taught them

Isaiah 29:13 And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but their heart is far from me, and they have feared me with the commandment and doctrines of men:

Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit.

Context
Israel's Cities Resettled by Foreigners
…27And 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. 28So 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.29And 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.…
Cross References
John 4:22
You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know. For salvation is of the Jews.

2 Kings 17:27
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 17:29
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.

Jonah 1:9
And they said to him: Tell us for what cause this evil is upon us, what is thy business? of what country art thou? and whither goest thou? or of what people art thou?

2 Kings 17:27
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