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Archevites

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

A people whom Asnapper brought from Erech or Uruk, a political and religious center of Babylonia, and settled in Samaria. They wrote to Artaxerxes concerning the building of the Temple at Jerusalem and had the work on it stopped (Ezra 4:9). Erech (Uruk) is mentioned in Genesis 10:10.

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Bibliography Information
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Archevites'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​a/archevites.html. 1901.