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the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Dehavites
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
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The Dehavites are mentioned among the peoples settled in Samaria who opposed the reconstruction of the Temple at Jerusalem (Ezra 4:9). Whether the Dehavites are to be connected with a nomadic Persian tribe, the Δήοι, mentioned by Herodotus (1:125), or with the name of the city of Du'-va, mentioned on Assyrian contract tablets, is doubtful. The Septuagint reads, in codex A, Δαυαῖοι ("the Davæans"), but in codex B the reading is Σουσυναχαῖοι oἰ εὰσίν, which means "the Susamchites who are the Elamites," taking the word translated "Dehavites" as a verb.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Dehavites'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/d/dehavites.html. 1901.
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Dehavites'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/d/dehavites.html. 1901.
