Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying
Gave the following orders and directions:
carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence;
for they carried away all the people of every class, civil and religious:
and let him go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of
the God of the land;
it is in the plural number, "let them go" {o}; there might be more priests than one ordered, or, however, others, to attend and assist him in his work; the Jews say F16, two were sent to circumcise them, and teach them the book of the law; and they give their names, Dosthai, or Dosithaeus, and Zachariah; and Josephus F17 says, the people desired that priests might be sent to them of the captives.