Casiphia

Casiphia was a Babylonian settlement that hosted a community of Jewish Levites and temple servants in the post-exilic period. When Ezra discovered that his second-wave caravan back to Jerusalem (458 BCE) contained no Levites, he sent leading men "with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia" to bring back ministers for the house of God (Ezra 8:17). Iddo and the community at Casiphia responded by sending Sherebiah, his brothers, and 220 temple servants. The location of Casiphia is uncertain but lay somewhere in Babylonia, likely a settlement that had become a center of Levitical training during the exile.