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John Gill's Exposition on 2 Kings 17:24
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, etc.] Which was at this time under the dominion of the king of Assyria; though in a little time after this it revolted, and had a king of its own, (<122012>2 Kings 20:12), this king of Assyria was either Shalmaneser, who carried Israel captive, or it may be rather his son Esarhaddon, (see <150402>Ezra 4:2), and from Cuthah; which, according to Josephus f205, was a city in Persia, where was a river of the same name; but it was rather a place in Erech, in the country of Babylon, (see Gill on “<011010>Genesis 10:10”), and from Ava; the same with Ivah, (<233713>Isaiah 37:13), where perhaps a colony of the Avim had settled, (<050223>Deuteronomy 2:23) and from Hamath; a city of Syria, which lay on the northern borders of the land of Canaan, (<043408>Numbers 34:8) and from Sepharvaim; thought by some to be the Sippara of Ptolemy, or the Sippareni of Abydenus, in Mesopotamia; though Vitringa takes it to be a city in Syro-Phoenicia, (see Gill on “<233619>Isaiah 36:19”), and placed them in the cities of Samaria, instead of the children of Israel; not in Samaria, which was now destroyed, according to the prophecy in (<330101>Micah 1:6) as Abarbinel and other Jewish writers note: and they possessed Samaria; as an inheritance; sowed it with corn, and planted vineyards there: and dwelt in the cities thereof; in the several parts of the kingdom.
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