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Reference: Ivah

Easton

overturning, a city of the Assyrians, whence colonists were brought to Samaria (2Ki 18:34; 19:13). It lay on the Euphrates, between Sepharvaim and Henah, and is supposed by some to have been the Ahava of Ezra (Ezr 8:15).

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Fausets

2Ki 18:34; 19:13; 17:24; Isa 37:13. Now Hit, on the Euphrates, between Sippara (Sepharvaim) and Anah (Hena), with which it was apparently united politically. Probably the Ahava of Ezr 8:15. Iva was a Babylonian god representing the sky; to it the town was sacred. Sennacherib boasts that the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah, were powerless to resist him. The Egyptian inscriptions in the time of Thothmes III, 1450 B.C., mention a town 1st, whence tribute of bitumen was brought to Thothmes. From the bitumen springs of Is, Herodotus says (i. 606) the bitumen was brought to cement the walls of Babylon. These springs are still found at Hit. From Ivah, along with Babylon, Cuthah, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, the king of Assyria (Esar-haddon) brought people to colonize Samaria.

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2 Kgs 17:24

The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon and from Cuthah and from Avva and from Hamath and Sephar-vaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel. So they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.

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2 Kgs 18:34

'Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

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2 Kgs 19:13

'Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena and Ivvah?'"

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Ezra 8:15

Now I assembled them at the river that runs to Ahava, where we camped for three days; and when I observed the people and the priests, I did not find any Levites there.

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Isa 37:13

'Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena and Ivvah?'"

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Morish

I'vah

District or city that had been conquered by Assyria. 2Ki 18:34; 19:13; Isa 37:13. Supposed to be the same as AVA in 2Ki 17:24 and AHAVA in Ezr 8:15,21.

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Smith

I'vah

(ruined), or A'va, which is mentioned in Scripture twice,

2Ki 18:34; 19:13

comp. Isai 37:13 in connection with Hena and Sepharvaim, and once,

2Ki 17:24

in connection with Babylon and Cuthah, must be sought in Babylonia, and is probably identical with the modern Hit, on the Euphrates.

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