Nibhaz

Nibhaz is only mentioned once in the Bible, in 2Ki.17.31. After the king of Assyria had deported most of the Israelites from Samaria, he resettled the area with people from other lands, including the Avvites. The Avvites are said to have made Nibhaz and Tartak their gods. Nothing else is known about Nibhaz from the Bible. It may have been a local deity of the Avvites from their homeland, but its characteristics and how it was represented are not recorded in Scripture. The foreign gods brought in by the resettled peoples were later seen as a spiritual snare to the remaining Israelites in the land.