Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
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Gill's Exposition
Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria,.... In letters, or by messengers they sent unto him:
saying, the nations which thou hast removed; from different places before mentioned:
and placed in…
Adam Clarke
The manner of the God of the land - משפט mishpat, the judgment; the way in which the God of the land is to be worshipped.
Never was land lost, we say, for want of an heir. When the children of Israel were dispossessed, and turned out of Canaan, the king of Assyria soon transplanted thither the supernumeraries of his own…
Cambridge Bible
they spake to the king of Assyria Whose thoughts on such a matter would be in accord with their own, and who would therefore take steps that the colonists should be instructed in the worship of the…
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