A place in Assyria from which colonies were brought to Samaria (2 Kings 17:24). It is probably the same with Ivah (18:34; 19:13; Isa. 37:13). It has been identified with Hit on the Euphrates.
Ava
Ava was one of the places that sent settlers into Samaria. After Israel was taken away, the king of Assyria brought men “from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim” and put them in the cities. Later an Assyrian spokesman asks Hezekiah’s people where the gods of Hamath and Arpad are, naming Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivah as examples of towns that fell. Ezra 4 lists other peoples settled there, who later wrote against the rebuilding. Together these passages show a land of mixed peoples. Second Kings 17 goes on to tell how the newcomers came to worship in the land.
3 verses
2 Kings
2 Kings 17:24
And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
2 Kings 18:34
Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
Ezra
Ezra 4:9
Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites,
From Easton's Bible Dictionary
Matthew George Easton, 1897
From Smith's Bible Dictionary
William Smith, 1884
(ruin), a place in the empire of Assyria, apparently the same as Ivan. (2 Kings 17:24)