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Yahweh's judgement continues against the new Assyrian inhabitants who practice their pagan religions.
## Cuthah...Avva...Hamath...Sepharvaim ##
Places in the Assyrian empire. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])
## It happened at the beginning of their residence there ##
AT: "When those people first lived there"
## that they did not honor Yahweh ##
The new people did not worship or seek to honor Yahweh.
## The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria ##
AT: "The people you have moved from other lands and sent to live in the cities of Samaria"
## do not know the practices required by the god of the land ##
"do not know how to worship the God that the Israelites worshipped in this land" (UDB)