2 Kings 17:33

They feared the Lord It seems almost as if the writer had repeated this phrase here and in the previous verse, and afterwards in verse 41, in mockery of this spurious reverence on which Jehovah could set no value.

after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence R.V. from among whom they had been carried away. The literal meaning of the latter words is -from whence [men] carried them away". The sense of A.V. has been given to the words because it was not noticed that the nominative to the verb was some indefinite noun, -men", referring to the Assyrian power which had brought these foreigners from their homes and planted them in Samaria.