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Israelite courtiers and ordinary worshipers follow foreign ritual fashions near a northern city shrine; no invented named nation.
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2 Kings 17:8

Borrowed practices

The Fall of Samaria · 2 Kings 17

Story guide: Israel adopts the nations' ways and its kings' customs.

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8And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom Yahweh had dispossessed before the sons of Israel, and in the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced.

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