²⁵ When they first lived there, they did not fear Yahweh. 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 Yahweh.

³² They feared the Lord, but they also appointed from their number priests to serve them in the shrines of the high places.^{(A) 33} They feared the Lord, but they also worshiped their own gods^(B) according to the custom of the nations where they had been deported from.