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City whose Assyrian-deported people repopulated Samaria with their child-sacrificing gods
MesopotamiaHistorically Verified
Identification debated — most likely Sibraim on the Damascus-Hamath border, though some place it near Sippar in southern Mesopotamia. The Assyrian deportation policy that brought Sepharvites to Samaria is well-documented in their royal annals.
A Mesopotamian or Syrian city whose people were deported to Samaria by the Assyrians to repopulate the territory after Israel's exile in 722 BC (2 Kings 17:24, 31). The Sepharvites brought their gods — Adrammelech and Anammelech — and burned their children as offerings to them, contributing to the syncretistic religion that became Samaritanism (2 Kings 17:31; Isaiah 36:19; 37:13). The Rabshakeh of Assyria taunted Hezekiah by listing Sepharvaim among the cities whose gods could not save them.
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