Difference between revisions of "Cuthah"

<p> The region of the [[Assyrian]] empire from whence [[Shalmaneser]] transported colonists, after the deportation of [[Israel]] from it. The seat of the worship of [[Nergal]] (&nbsp;2 Kings 17:24; &nbsp;2 Kings 17:30). The name is akin to Cush, as the Chaldaeans said Athur for Ashur. ''(Cush.)'' Its locality is probably Chuzistan in the region of Susiana E. of the Tigris. The mountainous region between [[Elam]] and Media was called Cuthah. It would be a natural policy to transplant some of the hardy mountaineers (called also Cossaei) from their own region, where they gave the [[Assyrians]] trouble, to Samaria. There is also a town Cuthah, now Towiba, close to Babylon. G. Smith and Rawlinson identify it with Tel Ibrahim. Intermixing with the ten tribes' remnant, they became progenitors of the [[Samaritans]] who are called "Cuthaeans" by the Jews. The Samaritans claimed kindred with the Sidonians, and these again with the Cuthaeans (Josephus, Ant. 11:8, section 6; 12:5, section 5; Chald. Paraphr. &nbsp;Genesis 10:19; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 1:13). </p>