2 Kings 17:24-26

Living Bible

²⁴ And the king of Assyria transported colonies of people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and resettled them in the cities of Samaria, replacing the people of Israel. So the Assyrians took over Samaria and the other cities of Israel. ²⁵ But since these Assyrian colonists did not worship the Lord when they first arrived, the Lord sent lions among them to kill some of them.

²⁶ Then they sent a message to the king of Assyria: “We colonists here in Israel don’t know the laws of the god of the land, and he has sent lions among us to destroy us because we have not worshiped him.”