29 However, each different nation came to be a maker of its own god,*+ which they then deposited in the house of the high places that the Sa·marʹi·tans* had made, each different nation,* in their cities where they were dwelling.

33 It was of Jehovah that they became fearers,+ but it was of their own gods that they proved to be worshipers,+ according to the religion of the nations from among whom they had led them into exile.+