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The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, from Cuthah, from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.
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Verse 24. King, Assaraddon, who led away the remnants of Israel, and fulfilled the prediction, Isaiah 7:8. D.—Babylon, or the territory. These people had been lately conquered from the Babylonian empire, from Syria, and so forth—Cutha: the greatest part were from this city; so that the Samaritans were afterwards called Cutheans.—Emath, on the Orontes.—Sepharvaim; or the Saspires, near Media. Calmet.—We find several other places mentioned, 1 Ezra 4:9. Bible.
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