²⁷ Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.

¹³ Then said Micah, Now know I that Yahweh will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

³¹ He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

² He cried against the altar by the word of Yahweh, and said, altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men's bones shall they burn on you.

¹⁵ and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made.