2 Kings 17:29 meaning and explanation

Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.

2 Kings 17:29, Berean Standard Bible

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After Assyria captured Samaria and deported Israel, the king resettled the region with peoples from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath and Sepharvaim. When lions struck, he sent back a priest to teach them the requirements of the God of the land, but the instruction took no root.

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