2 Kings 17:32

So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

Ver. 32. So they feared the Lord.] They did, and they did not; 2Ki 17:34 they feared him for his lions, as the old Romans served their Veioves, that they might not hurt them, and their gods Rubigus, Orbona, Febris, &c., for the same reason. a So the poor Indians do at this day worship the devil, that he may not whip them.

a Rosin., Ant., ii. 21.