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. o there might be more priests than one ordered, or, however, others, to attend and assist him in his work; the Jews say p, 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 q says, the people desired that priests might be sent to them of the captives.
o ילכו וישבו "eant et sedeant", Montanus. p Pirke Eliezer, c. 38. q Antiqu. l. 9. c. 14. sect. 3.