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.
31. The people from Avva made Nibhaz and Tartak.The people from Sepharvaim burned their children for Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.