DEHAITES (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] Dehavites, Ezr_4:9).The Dehaites were among the peoples settled in Samaria by Osnappar, i.e. probably the Assyr. [Note: Assyrian.] king Ashurbanipal. The name has been connected with that of a nomadic Persian tribe, the Daoi, mentioned in Herod. i. 125, or with the name of the city Du-ûa, mentioned on Assyr. [Note: Assyrian.] contract-tablets; but these identifications are very doubtful.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
dē̇-hā?tēz (דּהוא, dehāwē); the King James Version Dehavites): A people enumerated in Ezr_4:9 with Elamites, ere, as among those settled by the Assyrian king Osnappar (Assurbanipal) in Samaria. The identification is uncertain.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.