Ahava was both a town and a river (Ezra 8:21). The modern name of the place is Hit. It is famous for its bitumen springs, and is situat…

Ahava. —Both river and town. Nine days’ journey brought them there; and there is a place now called Hit, about eighty miles from B…

And I gathered them together to the river that runs to
Ahava
From which also the rive…

Ezra assembles the outcasts of Israel, and the dispersed of Judah. God raised up the spirits of a small remnant to accompany him. What a pity that …