פירוש על מלכים ב 17:29

That the citizens of Shomron had made. [I.e.,] the [Bnei] Yisroel while they were still there.

Each nation … its own god. [I.e.,] each nation, [placed] the deity they had worshiped in their land, here, too, each nation did so in the city which Sancheiriv had given them as a possession there in the cities of Yisroel.