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2 Kings 17:28

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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.

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The verses immediately either side, within 2 Kings 17.

Before

27Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, “Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let him go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.”

2 Kings 17:28

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.

After

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 in which they lived.

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