Second Kings 17:28-34

²⁸So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel; he taught them how they should honor Yahweh.

²⁹Every ethnic group made gods of their own, and put them in the high places that the Samaritans had made—every ethnic group in the cities where they lived.

³⁰The people of Babylon made Succoth Benoth; the people of Kuthah made Nergal; the people of Hamath made Ashima;

³¹the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak. The Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelek and Anammelek, the gods of the Sepharvites.

³²They also honored Yahweh, and appointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the temples at the high places.

³³They honored Yahweh and also worshiped their own gods, in the customs of the nations from among whom they had been taken away.

³⁴To this day they persist in their old customs. They neither honor Yahweh, nor do they follow the statutes, decrees, the law, or the commandments that Yahweh gave to the people of Jacob—whom he named Israel—