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", &c.
; there might be more priests than one ordered, or, however, others, to attend and assist him in his work; the Jews say , 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 says, the people desired that priests might be sent to them of the captives.
wbvyw wkly "eant et sedeant", Montanus. Pirke Eliezer, c. 38. Antiqu. l. 9. c. 14. sect.