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27 The king of Assyria gave the order, “Send back some of the priests you deported, to go there and settle, to teach them the proper worship of the god of the land.”

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27 Then the king of Assyria gave this order: “Have one of the priests you took captive from Samaria go back to live there and teach the people what the god of the land requires.”

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Renowned in Judah is God,(A)
    whose name is great in Israel.
On Salem[a] is God’s tent, his shelter on Zion.

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Footnotes

  1. 76:3 Salem: an ancient name for Jerusalem, used here perhaps on account of its allusion to the Hebrew word for peace, shalom, cf. Gn 14:18; Hb 7:1–3.

His tent is in Salem,(A)
    his dwelling place in Zion.(B)
There he broke the flashing arrows,(C)
    the shields and the swords, the weapons of war.[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 76:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 9.