2 Kings 17:27-34

27Then the king of Assyria issued commands, saying, “Take one of the priests there whom you led into 1exile, and have 2him go and live there; and have him teach them the custom of the God of the land.” 28So one of the priests whom they had led into exile from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they were to fear the Lord.

29But every nation was still making gods of its own, and they 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 were burning their children in the fire to 6Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of 7Sepharvaim. 328They also feared the Lord and 910appointed from their entire population priests of the high places, who acted for them in the houses of the high places. 33They feared the Lord, yet they were serving their own gods in accordance with the custom of the nations from among whom they had been taken into exile.

34To this day they act in accordance with the earlier customs: they do not fear the Lord, nor do they 11follow their statutes, their ordinances, the Law, or the commandments which the Lord commanded the sons of Jacob, 12whom He named Israel.