³¹ The people from Avva made idols of their gods called Nibhaz and Tartak. The people from Sepharvaim burned their children in fire as offerings to their gods, Adrammelech and Anammelech.

³² The foreign people in Samaria also worshipped the Lord. They chose some of their own people to serve as priests at the altars on the hills. ³³ In this way, they worshipped the Lord, but they also served their own gods. They did that in the way that they had always done in their own countries. That was what they did before the Assyrians sent them to live in Samaria.