2 Kings 17:32

32 They also worshipped the LORD, but they appointed priests for the shrines from their whole population. These priests worked in the houses at the shrines.

2 Kings 17:32 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 17:32

So they feared the Lord
Worshipped the God of Israel in the manner they were taught:

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;
these were made after the manner of Jeroboam's priests, ( 1 Kings 12:31 ) , and were to sacrifice to the God of Israel in the high places, and temples built there; for otherwise they had, no doubt, priests of their own to sacrifice to their gods, and which they brought with them.

2 Kings 17:32 In-Context

30 The Babylonian people made the god Succoth-benoth, the Cuthean people made Nergal, and the people from Hamath made Ashima.

31 The Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak. The Sepharvites burned their children alive as a sacrifice to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the Sepharvite gods.

32 They also worshipped the LORD, but they appointed priests for the shrines from their whole population. These priests worked in the houses at the shrines.

33 So they worshipped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the religious practices of the nations from which they had been exiled.

34 They are still following their former religious practices to this very day. They don't really worship the LORD. Nor do they follow the regulations, the case laws, the Instruction, or the commandment that the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.