² they approached Zerubbabel and the family heads and said to them, ‘Let us build with you, for we also worship your God and have been sacrificing to him^[a] since the time King Esar-haddon of Assyria brought us here.’^(A)

³² They feared the Lord, but they also made from their ranks priests for the high places, who were working for them at the shrines of the high places.^(A)