Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Isaiah 37:13
Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
13. Hamath Arphad Sepharvaim ] See ch. Isa 36:19. Hena and Ivah (R.V. more correctly, Ivvah) are not known. The latter is probably the same as Ava or Avva (2Ki 17:24).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The king of Hamath – (See the note at Isa 36:19).
Hena and Ivah – Hena is mentioned in 2Ki 18:34; 2Ki 19:13. It was evidently in Mesopotamia, and was probably the same which was afterward called Ana, situated near a ford of the Euphrates. The situation of Ivah is not certainly known. It was under the Assyrian dominion, and was one of the places from which colonists were brought to Samaria 2Ki 17:24, 2Ki 17:31. Michaelis supposes that it was between Berytus and Tripoli, but was under the dominion of the Assyrians.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
13. Hena . . . IvahinBabylonia. From Ava colonists had been brought to Samaria (2Ki17:24).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim,…. The same, as some think, with the gods or idols of those places, [See comments on Isa 36:19]; though it may be the princes that ruled over those cities are meant, who were either slain, or become tributary to the king of Assyria. It is added,
Henah and Ivah: which some take to be the names of the gods or kings of Sepharvaim; but rather, since Sepharvaim is of the dual number, it was a double city, the river Euphrates passing between them; and these, as Musculus conjectures, were the names of them; or it may be, these were distinct cities from that, but what or where they were is not certain. Ptolemy makes mention of a place called Ingine, near Gausanitis or Gozan, supposed to be Henah; though others rather think it to be Ange, which he places in Arabia i, which I think is not so probable. Ivah perhaps is the same with Avah, in 2Ki 17:24. The Targum does not take them for names or places, but translates them,
“hath he not removed them, and carried them captive?”
and so Jarchi’s note is,
“the king of Assyria hath moved and overthrown them, and destroyed them, and removed them out of their place;”
referring to the other cities.
i Geograph. l. 6. c. 7.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(13) Where is the king of Hamath . . .The question which had been asked in Isa. 36:19 as to the gods of the cities named is now asked of their kings, and the implied answer is that they are in the dungeons of Nineveh.
Hena, and Ivah.The sites have not been identified, but Anah is found as the name of a city on the Euphrates, and Ivah may be the same as the Ava of 2Ki. 17:24.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Hamath . . . Arphad . . . Sepharvaim. See notes on Isa 36:19.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Hamath: Isa 10:9, Isa 36:19, Jer 49:23
Hena: Hena is probably the same as Anah, a city of Mesopotamia, situated on an island in the Euphrates.
Ivah: 2Ki 17:24, 2Ki 17:30, 2Ki 17:31, Ava, Avites, 2Ki 18:34, 2Ki 19:13
Reciprocal: 2Ki 17:6 – Halah 2Ki 18:19 – Thus saith 2Ch 32:13 – I and my Job 33:19 – pain Isa 36:18 – Hath Amo 6:2 – better