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