en_tn_condensed/2ki/17/24.md

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)