• Sepharvaim
    Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 2

    • SEPHARVAIM

      (Seph·ar·vaʹim).

      A city from which the king of Assyria brought people to dwell in Samaria after the Israelites had been taken into exile. (2Ki 17:24) Earlier, Sepharvaim and its king appear to have experienced defeat at the hands of the Assyrians. (2Ki 19:13; Isa 37:13) Being mentioned along with places in Syria and Babylonia, Sepharvaim was perhaps in one of these areas.

  • Sepharvites
    Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 2

    • SEPHARVITES

      (Seʹphar·vites) [Of (Belonging to) Sepharvaim].

      People of the city of Sepharvaim. After 740 B.C.E., at least some of the inhabitants of Sepharvaim were taken by the Assyrians as colonists to Samaria. The Sepharvites brought with them their false religion, which included the sacrificing of their sons to the gods Adrammelech and Anammelech.​—2Ki 17:24, 31-33; 18:34; Isa 36:19.