nations

Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast remoued, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the maner of the God of the land: therfore he hath sent Lions among them, and beholde, they slay them, because they know not the maner of the God of the land.

They feared the LORD, and serued their owne gods, after the maner of the nations whom they caried away from thence.

1611 marginal noteOr, who caried them away from thence.

1611 marginal noteSophan. 1.5.

So these nations feared the LORD, and serued their grauen images, both their children, and their childrens children: as did their fathers, so doe they vnto this day.

Hath any of the gods of the nations deliuered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

Haue the gods of the nations deliuered them which my fathers haue destroyed? As Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?

Of a trueth, LORD, the kings of Assyria haue destroyed the nations and their lands,

But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to doe more euill then did the nations, whome the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.