Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 36:19

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19. Hamath . . . Arphad —(See on Isaiah 36:1 ). Sepharvaim —literally, "the two scribes"; now Sipphara, on the east of Euphrates, above Babylon. It was a just retribution ( Proverbs 1:31 ; Jeremiah 2:19 ). Israel worshipped the gods of Sepharvaim, and so colonists of Sepharvaim were planted in the land of Israel (thenceforth called Samaria) by the Assyrian conqueror ( 2 Kings 17:24 ; compare 2 Kings 18:34 ). Samaria —Shalmaneser began the siege against Hoshea, because of his conspiring with So of Egypt ( 2 Kings 17:4 ). Sargon finished it; and, in his palace at Khorsabad, he has mentioned the number of Israelites carried captive—27,280 [G. V. SMITH]. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-20" class="com-number"

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