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,
And the rest of their companions, х uwsh'aar (H7606) kªnaawaatªhown (H3675), and the rest of their colleagues; Septuagint, kai hoi kataloipoi sundouloi heemoon].
The Dinaites, х Diynaayee' (H1784); Septuagint, Deinaioi]. Junius ('Poli Synopsis,' in loco) calls them Dennani; Ewald ('Geschicte,' 3:, 375) considers the people referred to as connected with Deinaver, a city of the Medes. Rawlinson ('Ancient Monarchies,' 2:, p. 477) derives them from Dayan, a country frequently mentioned in the inscriptions, and bordering on Cilicia. The people named were the colonists sent by the Babylonian monarch to occupy the territory of the ten tribes "The great and noble Asnapper" [Septuagint, Assenafar] was an Assyrian satrap or general, to whom was committed the immediate command of the new colonists. Immediately after the murder of Sennacherib the Babylonians, Medes, Armenians, and other tributary people, seized the opportunity of throwing off the Assyrian yoke. But Esar-haddon having in the 30th year of his reign recovered Babylon, and subdued the other rebellious dependents, transported numbers of them into the waste cities of Samaria, most probably as a punishment of their revolt.
The Apharsathchites - or Aspharsachites (Ezra 5:6) [Septuagint, Afarsathapsaioi] - supposed to be the Paroetaceni (the initial Hebrew letter 'Aleph ('), being prosthetic), a highland tribe on the confines of Media and Persia.
The Tarpelites. This tribe has not been ascertained.
The Apharsites, х 'Apaarªcaayee' (H670); Septuagint, Afarsaioi] - Persians. The Apharsites, х 'Apaarªcaayee' (H670); Septuagint, Afarsaioi] - Persians.
The Archevites, х 'Arkªwaayee' (H756); Septuagint, Archuaioi] - inhabitants of Evech (Genesis 10:10) or Orchoe (passing the Babylonians).
The Susanchites, х Shuwshankaayee' (H7801); Septuagint, Sousanachaioi] - people from Susa or Susiana.
The Dehavites, х Dehaayee' (H1723), villagers; Septuagint, Dauaioi] - the Dai or Dahi, a tribe of Persian nomads, who were spread far and wide (Rawlinson's 'Herodotus.' b. 1:, ch. 125:; Strabo, b. 11:, ch. 8:, sec. 2; Pliny, 'Natural History,' b. 6:, 17).
And the Elamites, х `Eelªmaayee' (H5962)] - inhabitants of the province called Elam (Genesis 10:22). They are omitted in the Septuagint. This colonization by Asnapper, under Esarhaddon, was an entirely different one from that mentioned, 2 Kings 17:24 (Rawlinson's 'Ancient Monarchies,' 2:, 423, 477, 529).