2 Kings 17:28–34
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17:28So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel.48 He taught them how to worship49 the Lord.
17:29But each of these nations made50 its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria51 had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived. 17:30The people from Babylon made Succoth Benoth,52 the people from Cuth made Nergal,53 the people from Hamath made Ashima,5417:31the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak,55 and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech,56 the gods of Sepharvaim. 17:32At the same time they worshiped57 the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places.5817:33They were worshiping59 the Lord and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.
17:34To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship60 the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave61 the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.
Footnotes
- 48 For location see ; ; ; ; .
- 49 Heb “fear.”
- 50 The verb “make” refers to the production of idols. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (), .
- 51 Heb “Samaritans.” This refers to the Israelites who had been deported from the land.
- 52 No deity is known by the name Succoth Benoth in extant Mesopotamian literature. For speculation as to the identity of this deity, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (), .
- 53 Nergal was a Mesopotamian god of the underworld.
- 54 This deity is unknown in extra-biblical literature. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (), .
- 55 Nibhaz and Tartak were two Elamite deities. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (), .
- 56sn Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of the Sepharvaim are unknown in extra-biblical literature. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (), .
- 57 Heb “feared.”
- 58 Heb “and they appointed for themselves from their whole people priests for the high places and they were serving for them in the house[s] of the high places.”
- 59 Heb “fearing.”
- 60 Heb “fear.”
- 61 Heb “commanded.”
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