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Place

Halah

city in Assyria

Assyrian city or district where deported Israelites from the northern kingdom were settled after the fall of Samaria.

3 appearances2 Bible books1 known aliases

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A city or district in listed alongside and the river in 2 Kings 17 and 2 Kings 18 as one of the places where the king settled the deported from the northern kingdom after the fall of around 722 BC. The same grouping appears in 1 Chronicles 5 in the account of the Transjordanian tribes carried away by the Assyrians. Halah's exact identification among Mesopotamian sites is uncertain, though it has sometimes been connected with the region known as Halahhu in Assyrian records.

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