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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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,
comp. Isai 37:13 in connection with Hena and Sepharvaim, and once,
in connection with Babylon and Cuthah, must be sought in Babylonia, and is probably identical with the modern Hit, on the Euphrates.