32They worshiped the Lord , but they also appointed all sorts of their own people to officiate for them as priests in the shrines at the high places.


In Context

29 Nevertheless, each national group made its own gods in the several towns where they settled, and set them up in the shrines the people of Samaria had made at the high places.

30 The men from Babylon made Succoth Benoth, the men from Cuthah made Nergal, and the men from Hamath made Ashima;

31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire as sacrifices to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

32 They worshiped the Lord , but they also appointed all sorts 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.

34 To this day they persist in their former practices. They neither worship the Lord nor adhere to the decrees and ordinances, the laws and commands that the Lord gave the descendants of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

2nd Kings 17:32 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:32So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

17:32And nevertheless they worshipped the Lord. And they made to themselves, of the lowest of the people, priests of the high places, and they placed them in the temples of the high places.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

17:32So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:32So they feared Jehovah, and made to themselves from all classes of them priests of the high places, who offered sacrifices for them in the houses of the high places.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

17:32So they feared the LORD, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:32So they feared the LORD, and made to themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:32So they feared Yahweh, and made to them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

17:32And they are fearing Jehovah, and make to themselves from their extremities priests of high places, and they are acting for them in the house of the high places.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:32So they feared the LORD, and made to themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.