2 Kings 17:27

Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying ,.... Gave the following orders and directions:

carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence ; for they carried away all the people of every class, civil and religious:

and let him go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land ; it is in the plural number, "let them go", &c.; F15 ילכו וישבו "eant et sedeant", Montanus. ; there might be more priests than one ordered, or, however, others, to attend and assist him in his work; the Jews say F16 Pirke Eliezer, c. 38. , two were sent to circumcise them, and teach them the book of the law; and they give their names, Dosthai, or Dosithaeus, and Zachariah; and Josephus F17 Antiqu. l. 9. c. 14. sect. 3. says, the people desired that priests might be sent to them of the captives.