2 Kings 17:27-34

27Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, “Take there one of the priests whom you carried away into 1exile and let 2him go and live there; and let him teach them the custom of the god of the land.” 28So one of the priests whom they had carried away into exile from Samaria came and lived at Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the Lord.

29But every nation still made gods of its own and put them 3in the houses of the high places which the people of Samaria had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived. 304The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima, 31and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and 5the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to 6Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods of 7Sepharvaim. 328They also feared the Lord and 910appointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who acted for them in the houses of the high places. 33They feared the Lord and served their own gods according to the custom of the nations from among whom they had been carried away into exile.

34To this day they do according to the earlier customs: they do not fear the Lord, nor do they 11follow their statutes or their ordinances or the law, or the commandments which the Lord commanded the sons of Jacob, 12whom He named Israel;