2 Kings 17:28–34

²⁸Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in ^bBeth-el, and taught them how they should fear the Lord. ²⁹Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in ^cthe houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. ³⁰And the men of ^dBabylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, ³¹And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites ^eburnt their children in fire to ^fAdrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. ³²So they feared the Lord, and ^gmade unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in ^cthe houses of the high places. ^33hThey feared the Lord, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations ^||whom they carried away from thence. ³⁴Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the Lord, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, ⁱwhom he named Israel;