Assyria Resettles Samaria

^24 (A)And the king of Assyria brought people from ^(B)Babylon, Cuthah, ^(C)Avva, ^(D)Hamath, and ^(E)Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the people of Israel. And they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.

^32 (A)They also feared the Lord ^(B)and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of ^(C)the high places. ³³ So they feared the Lord but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.