2 Kings 17:28
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New International Version (©2011)
So one of the priests who had been exiled from Samaria came to live in Bethel and taught them how to worship the LORD.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So one of the priests who had been exiled from Samaria returned to Bethel and taught the new residents how to worship the LORD.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So one of the priests whom they had carried away into exile from Samaria came and lived at Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So one of the priests they had deported came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should fear Yahweh.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria went to live in Bethel to teach them how they ought to fear the LORD.

NET Bible (©2006)
So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. He taught them how to worship the LORD.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
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.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

American King James Version
Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelled in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

American Standard Version
So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear Jehovah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So one of the priests who had been carried away captive from Samaria, came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should worship the Lord.

Darby Bible Translation
Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and abode in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Jehovah.

English Revised Version
So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

World English Bible
So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Yahweh.

Young's Literal Translation
And one of the priests whom they removed from Samaria cometh in, and dwelleth in Beth-El, and he is teaching them how they do fear Jehovah,

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then one of the priests whom, they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel,.... According to an Arabic writer (r), his name was Uzziah; but Epiphanius (s) says his name was Esdras; but he wrongly makes him to be sent by Nebuchadnezzar, thirty years after the captivity of the Jews in Babylon: this priest was, doubtless, one of the priests of the calves; for there were none else in the kingdom of Israel carried captive, and as seems also by his choosing to dwell in Bethel, where probably he formerly dwelt, and officiated in the service of the calf there, and by teaching to make priests of the lowest order of the people, as Jeroboam's priests were, 2 Kings 17:32.

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The priest sent to the colonists was not a true Yahweh-priest, but one of those who had been attached to the calf-worship, probably at Bethel. Hence, he would be willing to tolerate the mixed religion, which a true Yahweh-priest would have unsparingly condemned.

Geneva Study Bible

Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

Wesley's Notes

17:28 Taught them - The manner of God's worship, as it was practised in Israel; as may be gathered both from the quality of this person, who was an Israelitish priest; and from the place of his residence, Beth - el, a place infamous for the worship of the calves, and from the manner of their making priests by this man's direction.

2 Kings 17:28 Parallel Commentaries
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Israel's Cities Resettled by Foreigners
…27Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land. 28Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelled in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. 29However, 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 dwelled. …

John 4:22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
2 Kings 17:27 Then the king of Assyria gave this order: "Have one of the priests you took captive from Samaria go back to live there and teach the people what the god of the land requires."
2 Kings 17:29 Nevertheless, each national group made its own gods in the several towns where they settled, and set them up in the shrines the people of Samaria had made at the high places.
Jonah 1:9 He answered, "I am a Hebrew and I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."