2 Kings 17:29

Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

In Context

28Thus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the LORD.

30The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,

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Cross References

1 Kings 12:31Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.

Psalms 115:4Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.

Isaiah 44:9All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.

Hosea 8:5He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Romans 1:23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 17:25-41

The Samaritans' Idolatry. ( b. c. 720.) 24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. 25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the Lord : therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which slew some of them. 26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The… Read the whole commentary →

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