²⁵ When they first lived there, they did not worship the Lord; so he sent lions^(A) among them and they killed some of the people.

²⁸ So one of the priests who had been exiled from Samaria came to live in Bethel and taught them how to worship the Lord.

³² They worshiped the Lord, but they also appointed all sorts^(A) of their own people to officiate for them as priests in the shrines at the high places. ³³ They worshiped the Lord, but they also served their own gods in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been brought.