2 Kings 17:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Bring one of the priests you brought from there; let him go and dwell there, and let him teach the people the manner of the God of the land.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Then the king of Assyria gave this order: 'Send back one of the priests you took captive from Samaria. Let him live there and teach the people the customs of the God of the land.'

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    The kinge of Assiria comaunded & saide: Bringe thither one of ye prestes yt were caried awaye fro thence & let him go thither, & dwell there, & teach the the ordinauce of the God of ye londe.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Then the King of Asshur commaunded, saying, Carie thither one of the Priestes whome ye brought thence, and let him goe and dwell there, and teache them the maner of the God of the countrey.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Then the king of Assyria commaunded, saying: Cary thyther one of the priestes whom ye brought thence, and let hym go and dwell there, and teache them the fashion how to serue the God of the countrey.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

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

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And the king of Asshur commandeth, saying, `Cause to go thither one of the priests whom ye removed thence, and they go and dwell there, and he doth teach them the custom of the God of the land.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

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

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    So the king of Assyria ordered,“Take back one of the priests whom you deported from there. He must settle there and teach them the requirements of the God of the land.”

Referenced Verses

  • Judg 17:13 : 13 Then said Micah, Now I know that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
  • 1 Kgs 12:31 : 31 And he made a house of high places and made priests from all sorts of people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
  • 1 Kgs 13:2 : 2 And he cried against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus says the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you shall he offer the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and men's bones shall be burnt upon you.
  • 2 Chr 11:15 : 15 And he ordained priests for the high places, for the devils, and for the calves which he made.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Kgs 17:28-29
    2 verses
    88%

    28So one of the priests who had been carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

    29However, every nation made gods of their own and put them in the shrines of the high places which the Samaritans had made, each nation in the cities where they lived.

  • 2 Kgs 17:23-26
    4 verses
    82%

    23until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it is to this day.

    24The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.

    25At the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the LORD; so the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

    26So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the manner of the God of the land; therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the manner of the God of the land.

  • 2 Chr 30:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, You children of Israel, return to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and He will return to you who are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

    7And do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as you see.

  • Isa 37:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.

    18Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their countries,

  • 2 Kgs 18:11
    72%

    11The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria and placed them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

  • 2 Kgs 19:17
    72%

    17Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,

  • Isa 7:17
    72%

    17The LORD shall bring upon you, and upon your people, and upon your father's house, days that have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

  • 2 Kgs 17:5-8
    4 verses
    71%

    5Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.

    6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

    7For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods.

    8And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

  • Isa 37:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not your God, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

    11Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by utterly destroying them; and shall you be delivered?

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
    71%

    18But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, As for the words which you have heard;

  • 2 Kgs 17:32-34
    3 verses
    71%

    32They feared the LORD and appointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.

    33They feared the LORD, yet served their own gods, in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away.

    34To this day they continue practicing their former habits: they do not fear the LORD, nor do they follow his statutes, or his ordinances, or the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

  • 2 Chr 17:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8And with them he sent Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.

    9And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.

  • Isa 36:18
    70%

    18Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

  • 2 Kgs 19:11
    70%

    11Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by utterly destroying them: and shall you be delivered?

  • 1 Chr 5:26
    70%

    26And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river Gozan, to this day.

  • 2 Kgs 18:32-33
    2 verses
    70%

    32until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive oil and honey, that you may live and not die. Do not listen to Hezekiah when he persuades you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.

    33Has any of the gods of the nations at all delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

  • 2 Chr 34:26
    70%

    26And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which you have heard;

  • 2 Chr 13:9
    69%

    9Have you not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made yourselves priests like the peoples of other lands? So that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of those who are no gods.

  • 2 Chr 31:4
    69%

    4Moreover, he commanded the people who dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.

  • Deut 17:10
    69%

    10You shall do according to the decision they give you at the place which the LORD chooses, and you shall be careful to do according to all that they instruct you.

  • 2 Kgs 22:12
    68%

    12And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah, a servant of the king's, saying,

  • Isa 37:37
    68%

    37So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

  • Exod 18:20
    68%

    20And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and show them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.

  • 2 Chr 33:11
    68%

    11Therefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh among the thorns, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

  • 2 Chr 34:20
    68%

    20And the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 16:9
    68%

    9The king of Assyria heeded him, for he went up against Damascus, captured it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.

  • Ezek 17:12
    68%

    12Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon has come to Jerusalem and has taken its king and its princes and led them with him to Babylon;

  • Isa 37:21
    68%

    21Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:

  • 2 Kgs 16:18
    68%

    18He also removed the sabbath canopy they had built in the house, and the king's outer entry, from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.

  • Isa 37:5-6
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    68%

    5So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

    6And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you say to your master, Thus says the LORD, Do not be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

  • 1 Chr 15:14
    68%

    14So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.

  • Josh 3:3
    68%

    3And they commanded the people, saying, When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests, the Levites, carrying it, then you shall move from your place and follow it.

  • 2 Kgs 18:28
    67%

    28Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in Hebrew and spoke, saying, Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

  • Hos 11:5
    67%

    5He shall not return to the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

  • 2 Kgs 23:17
    67%

    17Then he said, What monument is this that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.