28Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.
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And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. …
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-41)Never was land lost, we say, for want of an heir. When the children of Israel were dispossessed, and turned out of Canaan, the king of Assyria soon transplanted thither the supernumeraries of his own country, such as it could well spare, who should be servants to him and masters to the Israelites that remained; and here we have an account of these new inhabitants, whose story is related here that…
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