◄ 2 Kings 17:30 ►
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Good News Translation
the people of Babylon made idols of the god Succoth Benoth; the people of Cuth, idols of Nergal; the people of Hamath, idols of Ashima;

New Revised Standard Version
the people of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the people of Cuth made Nergal, the people of Hamath made Ashima;

Contemporary English Version
The people from Babylonia made the god Succoth-Benoth; those from Cuthah made the god Nergal; those from Hamath made Ashima;

New American Bible
The Babylonians made Sukkot-Benot; the people of Cuth made Nergal; those from Hamath made Ashima;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the men of Babylon made Sochothbenoth: and the Cuthites made Nergel: and the men of Emath made Asima.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the men of Babylon made Sochothbenoth: and the Cuthites made Nergel: and the men of Emath made Asima.

Babylon

2 Kings 17:24 And the king of the Assyrians brought people from Babylon, and from Cutha, and from Avah, and from Emath, 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.

Genesis 2:13 And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the land of Ethiopia.

) the ancient country of the Scythians, where we meet with Quittians, Coethians, of Coetae, and Cytheans, and the cities of Cotatis, Cetemane, Dythanum, Cyta, Cethena, etc.

Context
Israel's Cities Resettled by Foreigners
…29And every nation made gods of their own and put them in the temples of the high places, which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities where they dwelt. 30For the men of Babylon made Sochothbenoth: and the Cuthites made Nergel: and the men of Emath made Asima.31And the Hevites made Nebahaz, and Tharthac. And they that were of Sepharvaim burnt their children in fire, to Adramelech and Anamelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.…
Cross References
2 Kings 17:24
And the king of the Assyrians brought people from Babylon, and from Cutha, and from Avah, and from Emath, 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.

Jeremiah 2:28
Where are the gods, whom thou hast made thee? let them arise and deliver thee in the time of thy affliction: for according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda.

2 Kings 17:29
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