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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Halah
A district in Assyria, probably near Nineveh, where Israelites were deported after Samaria fell. Sargon II boasts in his own inscriptions of taking tens of thousands from Samaria around 722 BC.
A district in Assyria, probably near Nineveh, where Israelites were deported after Samaria fell. Sargon II boasts in his own inscriptions of taking tens of thousands from Samaria around 722 BC.
Halah was a district in Assyria, likely near Nineveh, to which the Assyrians deported Israelites from both the northern kingdom and the Transjordan tribes after conquering Samaria (2 Kings 17:6; 18:11; 1 Chronicles 5:26). Sargon II's own inscriptions boast of deporting tens of thousands of people from Samaria around 722 BC, independently confirming the mass deportation the Bible describes, even though Halah itself is known mainly from the biblical text and from later geographers who placed a district by a similar name in the same general area.
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- 2 Kings 17:6
- 2 Kings 18:11
- 1 Chronicles 5:26
