27. The king of Assyria gave this command: “Bring one of the priests you captured from there. Let him go back to teach them the customs of the god of that country.”
28. So one of the priests who had been taken prisoner from Samaria went to live in Bethel. He taught them how to worship the Lord.
29. But each group ⌊that settled in Samaria⌋ continued to make its own gods. They put them at the illegal places of worship, which the people of Samaria had made. Each group did this in the cities where they lived:
30. The people from Babylon made Succoth Benoth.The people from Cuth made Nergal.The people from Hamath made Ashima.