Ahava
아하와
Named at Ezra 8:15: “I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days.” 8:21 says, “Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava”, and 8:31, “Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem.” The Korean Revised Version names at 8:15, as WEB does, the river that runs to Ahava (아하와로 흐르는 강), and at 8:21 and 8:31 the river Ahava (아하와강).
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- EZR 8:15–20, engwebp
15I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days. Then I looked around at the people and the priests, and found there were none of the sons of Levi.
16Then I sent for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, for Elnathan, for Jarib, for Elnathan, for Nathan, for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib and for Elnathan, who were teachers.
17I sent them out to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell Iddo and his brothers the temple servants at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.
18According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;
19and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;
20and of the temple servants, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred twenty temple servants. All of them were mentioned by name.
- EZR 8:21–23, engwebp
21Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, for our little ones, and for all our possessions.
22For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”
23So we fasted and begged our God for this, and he granted our request.
- EZR 8:31–32, engwebp
31Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandits by the way.
32We came to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days.
AI-assisted, human review pending, 2026-09-26
Machine comparison on 2026-10-07: the wording raised none of the 3 rules against the passages this entry cites. No person has read it.
Geographic sources & candidates
Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Ahava” by name and 3 shared verses. The leading identification is within 250 km of Babylon 1 (confidence 708 of 1000). The area the dataset gives is more than 250 km in radius, so no point is drawn for it.
AI-assisted source review; human approval pending, 2026-09-29
- within 250 km of Babylon 1
OpenBible.info confidence 708 of 1000 (current scholarship)
32.54333, 44.42222
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Ahava” (CC BY 4.0)
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Narrated location (2) — The speaker sends the chief men and the teachers to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, The speaker proclaims a fast at the river Ahava
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I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days. Then I looked around at the people and the priests, and found there were none of the sons of Levi.
Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, for our little ones, and for all our possessions.
Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandits by the way.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Ahava (place-ahava) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/ahava Current wording: Named at Ezra 8:15: “I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days.” 8:21 says, “Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava”, and 8:31, “Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem.” The Korean Revised Version names at 8:15, as WEB does, the river that runs to Ahava (아하와로 흐르는 강), and at 8:21 and 8:31 the river Ahava (아하와강). Cited evidence: EZR 8:15–20, engwebp / EZR 8:21–23, engwebp / EZR 8:31–32, engwebp Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.