en_tn/2ki/17/24.md

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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: :en:ta:vol1: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)