2nd Kings 17:28-34

²⁸Therefore when one of these priests had come, that were led away as prisoners from Samaria, he dwelled in Bethel, and taught them, how they should worship the Lord.

²⁹And each folk made his god, and they setted or put those gods in the high temples, which the men of Samaria had made, folk and folk in their cities, in which they dwelled.

³⁰For men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth; and men of Cuth made Nergal; and men of Hamath made Ashima;

³¹and Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak; soothly they that were of Sepharvaim burnt their sons in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

³²And nevertheless they worshipped the Lord; forsooth of the last men, that is, of vile persons, that were not of priests’ kin, by the law of Moses, they made priests of the high things, and setted or put them in high temples.

³³And when they worshipped God, they served also their gods, by the custom of heathen men, from which they were translated or brought over to Samaria;

³⁴till to this present day they pursue or follow the eld or old custom; they dreaded not the Lord, neither they keep his ceremonies, and dooms, and law, and commandment, which the Lord commanded to the sons of Jacob, whom he named Israel;