The King James Version translation for the residents of Erech (also spelled Uruk) in southern Babylonia. The Archevites were moved to Samaria by Asnappar, the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal (Ezra 4:9–10). The Archevites were local residents. They wrote to Artaxerxes of Persia, opposing the rebuilding of Jerusalem by the Jews who had returned from exile in Babylon (Ezra 4:7–16).
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Archevites
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