SEV Biblia, Chapter 17:24
¶ Y trajo el rey de Asiria gentiles de Babilonia, y de Cuta, y de Ava, y de Hamat, y de Sefarvaim, y los puso en las ciudades de Samaria en lugar de los hijos de Israel; y poseyeron a Samaria, y habitaron en sus ciudades.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:24
Verse 24. The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon] He removed one people entirely, and substituted others in their place; and this he did to cut off all occasion for mutiny or insurrection; for the people being removed from their own land, had no object worthy of attention to contend for, and no patrimony in the land of their captivity to induce them to hazard any opposition to their oppressors. By men from Babylon, we may understand some cities of Babylonia then under the Assyrian empire; for at this time Babylon had a king of its own; but some parts of what was called Babylonia might have been still under the Assyrian government.
From Cuthah] This is supposed to be the same as Cush, the Chaldeans and Syrians changing shin into t tau; thus they make wk Cush into twk Cuth; and rwa shshur, Assyria, into rwta Attur. From these came the Scythae; and from these the Samaritans were called Cuthaeans, and their language Cuthite. The original language of this people, or at least the language they spoke after their settlement in Israel, is contained in the Samaritan version of the Pentateuch, printed under the Hebraeo-Samaritan in vol. i. of the London Polyglot. This Cuthah was probably the country in the land of Shinar, first inhabited by Cush.
From Ava] The Avim were an ancient people, expelled by the Caphtorim from Hazerim, Deut. ii. 23.
From Hamath] This was Hemath or Emath of Syria, frequently mentioned in the sacred writings.
From Sepharvaim] There was a city called Syphera, near the Euphrates; others think the Saspires, a people situated between the Colchians and the Medes, are meant. There is much uncertainty relative to these places: all that we know is, that the Assyrians carried away the Israelites into Assyria, and placed them in cities and districts called Halah and Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, ver. 6; and it is very likely that they brought some of the inhabitants of those places into the cities of Israel.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 24. 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, ( 2 Kings 20:12), this king of Assyria was either Shalmaneser, who carried Israel captive, or it may be rather his son Esarhaddon, (see 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 “ Genesis 10:10”), and from Ava ; the same with Ivah, ( Isaiah 37:13), where perhaps a colony of the Avim had settled, ( Deuteronomy 2:23) and from Hamath ; a city of Syria, which lay on the northern borders of the land of Canaan, ( 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 “ 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 ( 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 24-41 - The terror of the Almighty will sometimes produce a forced or feigne submission in unconverted men; like those brought from differen countries to inhabit Israel. But such will form unworthy thoughts of God, will expect to please him by outward forms, and will vainly try to reconcile his service with the love of the world and the indulgence of their lusts. May that fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom, possess our hearts, and influence our conduct, that we may be ready for every change. Wordly settlements are uncertain; we know no whither we may be driven before we die, and we must soon leave the world; but the righteous hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken from him __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויבא 935 מלך 4428 אשׁור 804 מבבל 894 ומכותה 3575 ומעוא 5755 ומחמת 2574 וספרוים 5617 וישׁב 3427 בערי 5892 שׁמרון 8111 תחת 8478 בני 1121 ישׂראל 3478 וירשׁו 3423 את 853 שׁמרון 8111 וישׁבו 3427 בעריה׃ 5892
