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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Cuth
The Assyrians conquered the northern kingdom and moved people from this Babylonian city into Samaria, and they brought their god Nergal with them. It is identified with Tell Ibrahim northeast of Babylon. Later Jews used Cuthites, often as an insult, for Samaritans.
The Assyrians conquered the northern kingdom and moved people from this Babylonian city into Samaria, and they brought their god Nergal with them. It is identified with Tell Ibrahim northeast of Babylon. Later Jews used Cuthites, often as an insult, for Samaritans.
Cuth, or Cuthah, was a Babylonian city whose deported inhabitants the Assyrians resettled in Samaria after conquering the northern kingdom; these settlers brought the worship of their god Nergal with them (2 Kings 17:24, 30). The city has been identified with Tell Ibrahim northeast of Babylon, and “Cuthites” became a term Jews later used, often disparagingly, for Samaritans.
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- 2 Kings 17:30
