Archevites

The Archevites were one of the peoples settled in Samaria by the Assyrians, named among the groups whose representatives signed a letter of complaint to the Persian court against the rebuilding of Jerusalem.

Settlers in Samaria

The single reference to the Archevites places them in a list of foreign peoples co-signing a formal petition to the Persian king. Ezr 4:9 names them alongside the Dinaites, Apharsathchites, Tarpelites, Apharsites, Babylonians, Shushanchites, Dehaites, and Elamites — a catalogue of deportee communities resettled in the region of Samaria by Assyrian policy: "then [wrote] Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their fellow slaves, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites" (Ezr 4:9).