Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
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.
New American Standard Bible
So 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.
King James Version
Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.
Holman Bible
So one of the priests they had deported came and lived in Bethel,
International Standard Version
So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria went to live in Bethel to teach them how they ought to fear the LORD.
A Conservative Version
So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear LORD.
American Standard Version
So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear Jehovah.
Amplified
So one of the priests whom they had exiled from Samaria came [back] and lived in Bethel and taught them how they should fear [and worship] the Lord.
Darby Translation
Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and abode in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Jehovah.
Julia Smith Translation
And one of the priests which they carried into exile from Shomeron will come and dwell in the house of God, and he will be teaching them how they shall fear Jehovah.
King James 2000
Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So one of the priests went, whom they had deported from Samaria, and he settled in Bethel and was teaching them how they should fear Yahweh.
Modern King James verseion
And one of the priests whom they had removed from Samaria came and lived in Bethel. And he taught them how they should fear Jehovah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And then one of the priests which they had carried thence, went and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.
NET Bible
So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. He taught them how to worship the Lord.
New Heart English Bible
So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.
The Emphasized Bible
Then came one of the priests whom they had carried away captive from Samaria, and dwelt in Bethel, - and he began teaching them how they should do reverence unto Yahweh.
Webster
Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.
World English Bible
So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Yahweh.
Youngs Literal Translation
And one of the priests whom they removed from Samaria cometh in, and dwelleth in Beth-El, and he is teaching them how they do fear Jehovah,
Themes
Beth-el » A city » A city north of jerusalem » Shalmanezer sends a priest to
Cuth » A district » A district of asia, from which colonists were transported to samaria
Instruction » Examples of spiritual
Judgments » Delivered » Into the hands of the assyrians
Samaria » Country of » Foreign colonies distributed among the cities of, by the king of assyria
Interlinear
'echad
Galah
Yashab
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Kings 17:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Repopulated With Foreign Captives
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. 28 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. 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.
Cross References
1 Kings 12:29-32
And he put one in Beth-el and the other in Dan.
Isaiah 29:13
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;
Matthew 15:14
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.