²⁵ When they first lived there, they did not fear the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, which killed some of them.^(A)

²⁸ So one of the priests they had deported came and lived in Bethel,^(A) and he began to teach them how they should fear the Lord.

³² They feared the Lord, but they also made from their ranks priests for the high places, who were working for them at the shrines of the high places.^{(A) 33} They feared the Lord, but they also worshiped their own gods^(B) according to the practice of the nations from which they had been deported.