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Bible Encyclopedias
Sepharvaim
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
1. Formerly Identified with the Two Babylonian Sippars:
This city, mentioned in 2 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 18:34; 2 Kings 19:13; Isaiah 36:19; Isaiah 37:13 , is generally identified with the
2. Difficulties of That Identification:
Besides the fact that the deities of the two cities, Sippar and Sepharvaim, are not the same, it is to be noted that in 2 Kings 19:13 the king of Sepharvaim is referred to, and, as far as is known, the Babylonian Sippar never had a king of its own, nor had Akkad, with which it is in part identified, for at least 1,200 years before Sennacherib. The fact that Babylon and Cuthah head the list of cities mentioned is no indication that Sepharvaim was a Babylonian town - the composition of the list, indeed, points the other way, for the name comes after Ava and Hamath, implying that it lay in Syria.
3. Another Suggestion:
Joseph Halevy therefore suggests (
Literature.
See Schrader, The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament , I, 71 f; Kittel on K; Dillmann-Kittel on Isa , at the place;
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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Sepharvaim'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​isb/​s/sepharvaim.html. 1915.