Verse 27
ONE OF THE DEPORTED PRIESTS OF ISRAEL WAS SENT BACK TO TELL THEM HOW TO WORSHIP JEHOVAH
"Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let him go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land. So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Jehovah."
There was just one thing wrong with this arrangement. The priests of Northern Israel were themselves apostates from the true worship of Jehovah; and, as a consequence, it was very inadequate instruction which such a person would have been able to provide. True to the example of Jeroboam, the religion of Samaria promptly became a mixture of any number of pagan systems along with a defective knowledge and worship of Jehovah. These are mentioned next.
Yet, whoever that priest was, he seems to have possessed a copy of the Law of Moses in a somewhat corrupted form, the same being the basis of the Samaritan Pentateuch.
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