2 Kings 17:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So one of the priests whom they had taken away as a prisoner from Samaria came back, and, living in Beth-el, became their teacher in the worship of the Lord.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 12:29-32 : 29 And he put one in Beth-el and the other in Dan. 30 And this became a sin in Israel; for the people went to give worship to the one at Beth-el, and to the other at Dan. 31 And he made places for worship at the high places, and made priests, who were not Levites, from among all the people. 32 And Jeroboam gave orders for a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is kept in Judah, and he went up to the altar. And in the same way, in Beth-el, he gave offerings to the oxen which he had made, placing in Beth-el the priests of the high places he had made.
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;
  • Matt 15:14 : 14 Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:23-27
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    88%

    23 Till the Lord put Israel away from before his face, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was taken away from their land to Assyria, to this day.

    24 Then the king of Assyria took men from Babylon and from Cuthah and Avva and Hamath and Sepharvaim, and put them in the towns of Samaria in place of the children of Israel; so they got Samaria for their heritage, living in its towns.

    25 Now when first they were living there they did not give worship to the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, causing the death of some of them.

    26 So they said to the king of Assyria, The nations whom you have taken as prisoners and put in the towns of Samaria, have no knowledge of the way of the god of the land: so he has sent lions among them, causing their death, because they have no knowledge of his way.

    27 Then the king of Assyria gave orders, saying, Send there one of the priests whom you took away, and let him be living there and teaching the people the way of the god of the land.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
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    29 And every nation made gods for themselves, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the towns where they were living.

  • 2 Kgs 17:32-35
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    32 So they went on worshipping the Lord, and made for themselves, from among all the people, priests for the high places, to make offerings for them in the houses of the high places.

    33 They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners.

    34 So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;

    35 And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:

  • 2 Kgs 17:6-8
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    6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and took Israel away to Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes.

    7 And the wrath of the Lord came on Israel because they had done evil against the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt from under the yoke of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and had become worshippers of other gods,

    8 Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 17:8-9
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    8 And with them, Shemaiah and Nethaniah and Zebadiah and Asahel and Shemiramoth and Jehonathan and Adonijah and Tobijah and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and Elishama and Jehoram the priests.

    9 And they gave teaching in Judah and had the book of the law of the Lord with them; they went through all the towns of Judah teaching the people.

  • Hos 10:5
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    5 The people of Samaria will be full of fear because of the ox of Beth-aven; its people will have sorrow for it, and its priests will give cries of grief for its glory, for the glory has gone in flight.

  • 2 Kgs 23:17
    70%

    17 What is that headstone I see over there? And the men of the town said to him, It is the resting-place of the man of God who came from Judah and gave word of all these things which you have done to the altar of Beth-el.

  • 1 Kgs 13:32-33
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    32 For the outcry he made by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, will certainly come about.

    33 After this Jeroboam, not turning back from his evil ways, still made priests for his altars from among all the people; he made a priest of anyone desiring it, so that there might be priests of the high places.

  • 2 Chr 13:9
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    9 And after driving out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, have you not made priests for yourselves as the people of other lands do? so that anyone who comes to make himself priest by offering an ox or seven sheep, may be a priest of those who are no gods.

  • 1 Kgs 12:29
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    29 And he put one in Beth-el and the other in Dan.

  • 1 Kgs 13:10-11
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    68%

    10 So he went another way, and not by the way he came to Beth-el.

    11 Now there was an old prophet living in Beth-el; and one of his sons came and gave him word of all the man of God had done that day in Beth-el, and they gave their father an account of the words he had said to the king.

  • Jer 26:17
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    17 Then some of the responsible men of the land got up and said to all the meeting of the people,

  • 2 Kgs 17:11-12
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    11 Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;

    12 And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

  • 2 Chr 11:13-14
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    13 And the priests and Levites who were in all Israel came together to him from every part of their country.

    14 For the Levites gave up their living-places and their property, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had sent them away, not letting them be priests to the Lord;

  • 1 Chr 15:14
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    14 So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to take up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
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    19 Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
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    31 And he made places for worship at the high places, and made priests, who were not Levites, from among all the people.

  • 1 Kgs 13:1
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    1 Then a man of God came from Judah by the order of the Lord to Beth-el, where Jeroboam was by the altar, burning offerings.

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
    68%

    18 But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: As to the words which have come to your ears,

  • 2 Chr 30:6-7
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    67%

    6 So runners went with letters from the king and his chiefs through all Israel and Judah, by the order of the king, saying, O children of Israel, come back again to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may come again to that small band of you which has been kept safe out of the hands of the kings of Assyria.

    7 Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

  • Judg 18:18-20
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    18 And when they went into Micah's house and took out the pictured image and the ephod and the family gods and the metal image, the priest said to them, What are you doing?

    19 And they said to him, Be quiet; say nothing, and come with us and be our father and priest; is it better for you to be priest to one man's house or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

    20 Then the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod and the family gods and the pictured image and went with the people.

  • Isa 29:13
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    13 And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

  • Ezek 14:1
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    1 Then certain of the responsible men of Israel came to me and took their seats before me.

  • Deut 20:18
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    18 So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

  • Judg 18:4
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    4 And he said to them, This is what Micah did for me, and he gave me payment and I became his priest.

  • Ezek 12:17
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    17 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 8:3
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    3 And all the responsible men of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

  • Judg 17:12
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    12 And Micah gave the position to the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

  • 2 Chr 29:15
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    15 And they got their brothers together and made themselves holy, and went in, as the king had said by the word of the Lord, to make the house of the Lord clean.

  • 2 Chr 11:16
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    16 And after them, from all the tribes of Israel, all those whose hearts were fixed and true to the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to make offerings to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

  • Deut 17:9-10
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    66%

    9 And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:

    10 And you are to be guided by the decision they give in the place named by the Lord, and do whatever they say:

  • Lev 17:8
    66%

    8 And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering,