2 Raja-raja 17:24

Raja Asyur memindahkan orang-orang dari kota Babel, Kuta, Awa, Hamat, dan Sefarwaim untuk menetap di Samaria dan kota-kota sekitarnya, menggantikan bangsa Israel. Demikianlah sekarang daerah Samaria diduduki oleh bangsa asing.

¶ 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.