or CUTHAH, in Ancient Geography, a province of Assyria, which, as some say, lies upon the Araxes, and is the same with Cush; but others take it to be the same with the country which the Greeks call Sufiana, and which to this very day, says Dr Wells, is by the inhabitants called Chus/ian. F. Calmet is of opinion that Cuthah and Scythia are the same place, and that the Cuthites who were removed into Samaria by Salmaneser (2 Kings xvii. 24.) came from Cuth, or Cuth, mentioned in Gen. ii. 23. See the article CUSH. The Cuthites worshipped the idol Nergal, Id. ibid. 30. These people were transplanted into Samaria in the room of the Israelites, who before inhabited it. Calmet is of opinion, they came from the land of Cuth, or Cuthah, upon the Araxes; and that their first settlement was in the cities of the Medes, subdued by Salmaneser and the kings of Assyria his predecessors. The Scripture observes, that the Cuthites, upon their arrival in this new country, continued to worship the gods formerly adored by them beyond the Euphrates. Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who succeeded Senacherib, appointed an Israelitish priest to go thither, and instruct them in the religion of the Hebrews. But these people thought they might reconcile their old superstition with the worship of the true God. They therefore framed particular gods for themselves, which they placed in the several cities where they dwelt. The Cuthites then worshipped both the Lord and their false gods together, and chose the lowest of the people to make priests of them in the high places; and they continued this practice for a long time. But afterwards they forsook the worship of idols, and adhered only to the law of Moses, as the Samaritans, who are descended from the Cuthites, do at this day.