Nergal

Nergal is one of the foreign idols set up in Samaria by peoples whom the king of Assyria resettled there after the deportation of Israel.

An idol of the men of Cuth

When colonists from Babylon, Cuth, Hamath, and other Mesopotamian centers were brought into the cities of Samaria, each group continued making the gods of its homeland. The text names them in turn: "And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima," (2 Kgs 17:30). Nergal stands here as the deity associated specifically with the people of Cuth, set in a list of foreign idols introduced into the land alongside the worship of Yahweh.