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Named at 1 Kings 16:24 as the name of the city Omri built. 16:23–24 say, “In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel for twelve years. He reigned six years in Tirzah. He bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.” 1 Kings 20:1–21 says that Ben Hadad the king of Syria went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it, and said, “The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria will be enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me”, that those whom Ben Hadad sent out told him, “Men are coming out from Samaria”, and that the young men of the princes of the provinces and the army which followed them went out of the city and each killed his man; 20:34 that Ben Hadad said, “You shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria”; and 20:43 that the king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Samaria. 1 Kings 21:1 places Naboth’s vineyard “next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria”, and 21:18 names, in the LORD’s word, “Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria”; 22:10 has the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sitting each on his throne “in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria”; 22:37–38 says that the king died, and was brought to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria, and that they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and 22:51 that Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria. 2 Kings 6:18–20 says that those who came down to Elisha (the Korean Revised Version names them, 아람 사람, the Syrians) were struck with blindness according to Elisha’s word, that Elisha led them to Samaria (WEB “He led them to Samaria”), and that when the LORD opened their eyes, behold, they were in the middle of Samaria. 6:24–25 says, “After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria. There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver”; the Korean Revised Version tells the siege first and reads 은 팔십 세겔, eighty shekels of silver. At 7:1 Elisha says, “Hear the LORD’s word. The LORD says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’” 7:18 says that it happened as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two seahs of barley for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria”. 2 Kings 17:1 says, “In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel for nine years”; 17:5–6, “Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria”; 17:24, that the king of Assyria placed the people he brought in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel, “and they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities”; and 17:28, “So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.” The Korean Revised Version names no one at 17:5. Luke 9:52 has the messengers Jesus sent ahead of him enter a village of the Samaritans to prepare for him, and at 9:53 he is not received there, because he is traveling with his face set toward Jerusalem. Luke 17:11 says that on his way to Jerusalem Jesus was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee. John 4:3–9 has Jesus, leaving Judea for Galilee, need to pass through Samaria and come to a city of Samaria called Sychar; when a woman of Samaria comes to draw water and Jesus says to her, “Give me a drink,” she says, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?”, for Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. At Acts 1:6–8, when those who have come together ask Jesus, “Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?”, he says to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.” Acts 8:1 says that a great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles; at 8:5–13 Philip goes down to the city of Samaria and proclaims the Christ, there is great joy in that city, and Simon, who had amazed the people of Samaria with his sorceries, also believes and is baptized; at 8:14–25 the apostles who are at Jerusalem hear that Samaria has received the word of God and send Peter and John, who return to Jerusalem and preach the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans; and 9:31 says that the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were built up. Acts 15:2–3 says that Paul, Barnabas, and some others, appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders, were sent on their way by the assembly and passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles, and caused great joy to all the brothers.

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At Jacob’s well: the woman of Samaria (Event)At Jacob’s we…Philip proclaims the Christ in the city of Samaria (Event)Simon, who practiced sorcery, also believes and is baptized (Event)Simon, who pr…Peter and John in Samaria; Simon offers them money (Event)Peter and Joh…The assemblies throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria have peace (Event)The question of circumcision: Paul, Barnabas and some others go up to Jerusalem (Event)Omri buys the hill Samaria of Shemer, builds a city on it, and calls it Samaria (Event)Ahab the son of Omri takes Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal as wife and serves Baal (Event)Ahab the son …The LORD’s word to Elijah in the third year, and the severe famine in Samaria (Event)The LORD’s wo…Ben Hadad the king of Syria besieges Samaria and sends messengers to Ahab king of Israel (Event)Ben Hadad the…A prophet comes near to Ahab king of Israel, and the king of Israel kills the Syrians with a great slaughter (Event)A prophet com…The king of Israel asks the prophets, about four hundred men, and Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah makes horns of iron (Event)The king of Israel, who disguised himself and went into the battle, is struck between the joints of the armor and dies at evening (Event)The king of I…Ahaziah the son of Ahab reigns over Israel and serves Baal (Event)Ahaziah the s…Ahaziah sends messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, and the LORD’s angel speaks to Elijah the Tishbite (Event)Ahaziah sends…Jehoram the son of Ahab reigns over Israel in Samaria and puts away the pillar of Baal (Event)When the king of Moab rebels, King Jehoram musters all Israel and asks Jehoshaphat the king of Judah to go with him (Event)Elisha leads the Syrians struck with blindness to Samaria; a great feast is prepared for them, and they are sent away to their master (Event)Benhadad king of Syria besieges Samaria, and there is a great famine in it (Event)Benhadad king…Jehu writes letters and sends them to Samaria, and he who was over the household, he who was over the city and the elders send to Jehu (Event)Jehu writes l…Jehu takes Jehonadab the son of Rechab up into the chariot, and all who remained to Ahab in Samaria are destroyed (Event)Jehu sleeps with his fathers and is buried in Samaria, and Jehoahaz his son reigns in his place (Event)Jehu sleeps w…Jehoahaz the son of Jehu reigns over Israel in Samaria, and begs the LORD (Event)Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz reigns over Israel in Samaria sixteen years (Event)Amaziah sends messengers to Jehoash king of Israel, and Jehoash takes Amaziah at Beth Shemesh and breaks down the wall of Jerusalem (Event)Jehoash sleeps with his fathers and is buried in Samaria, and Jeroboam his son reigns in his place (Event)Jeroboam the son of Joash reigns in Samaria and restores the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah (Event)Shallum the son of Jabesh conspires against Zechariah the son of Jeroboam and kills him before the people (Event)Menahem the son of Gadi goes up from Tirzah to Samaria and kills Shallum the son of Jabesh (Event)Menahem the son of Gadi reigns over Israel and gives Pul the king of Assyria one thousand talents of silver (Event)Menahem the s…Pekah the son of Remaliah conspires against Pekahiah and kills him in Samaria, in the fortress of the king’s house (Event)Pekah the son of Remaliah reigns over Israel in Samaria twenty years (Event)Pekah the son…Hoshea the son of Elah reigns in Samaria over Israel, and the king of Assyria binds him in prison (Event)The king of Assyria takes Samaria and carries Israel away to Assyria (Event)The king of A…The king of Assyria places people in the cities of Samaria, and one of the priests carried away from Samaria comes and lives in Bethel (Event)Shalmaneser king of Assyria besieges Samaria, and at the end of three years Samaria is taken (Event)Jehoshaphat visits Ahab in Samaria and agrees to war at Ramoth Gilead (Event)Zedekiah and the prophets foretell victory at Samaria’s gate (Event)Ahaziah is brought to Jehu and killed by the men (Event)Syria and Israel strike Judah and take captives to Samaria (Event)Oded urges Israel’s army to return the captives (Event)Oded urges Is…Ephraim’s leaders care for and return the captives to Jericho (Event)

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Entry: Samaria (place-samaria)
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Current wording: Named at 1 Kings 16:24 as the name of the city Omri built. 16:23–24 say, “In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel for twelve years. He reigned six years in Tirzah. He bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.” 1 Kings 20:1–21 says that Ben Hadad the king of Syria went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it, and said, “The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria will be enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me”, that those whom Ben Hadad sent out told him, “Men are coming out from Samaria”, and that the young men of the princes of the provinces and the army which followed them went out of the city and each killed his man; 20:34 that Ben Hadad said, “You shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria”; and 20:43 that the king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Samaria. 1 Kings 21:1 places Naboth’s vineyard “next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria”, and 21:18 names, in the LORD’s word, “Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria”; 22:10 has the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sitting each on his throne “in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria”; 22:37–38 says that the king died, and was brought to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria, and that they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and 22:51 that Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria. 2 Kings 6:18–20 says that those who came down to Elisha (the Korean Revised Version names them, 아람 사람, the Syrians) were struck with blindness according to Elisha’s word, that Elisha led them to Samaria (WEB “He led them to Samaria”), and that when the LORD opened their eyes, behold, they were in the middle of Samaria. 6:24–25 says, “After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria. There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver”; the Korean Revised Version tells the siege first and reads 은 팔십 세겔, eighty shekels of silver. At 7:1 Elisha says, “Hear the LORD’s word. The LORD says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’” 7:18 says that it happened as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two seahs of barley for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria”. 2 Kings 17:1 says, “In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel for nine years”; 17:5–6, “Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria”; 17:24, that the king of Assyria placed the people he brought in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel, “and they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities”; and 17:28, “So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.” The Korean Revised Version names no one at 17:5. Luke 9:52 has the messengers Jesus sent ahead of him enter a village of the Samaritans to prepare for him, and at 9:53 he is not received there, because he is traveling with his face set toward Jerusalem. Luke 17:11 says that on his way to Jerusalem Jesus was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee. John 4:3–9 has Jesus, leaving Judea for Galilee, need to pass through Samaria and come to a city of Samaria called Sychar; when a woman of Samaria comes to draw water and Jesus says to her, “Give me a drink,” she says, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?”, for Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. At Acts 1:6–8, when those who have come together ask Jesus, “Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?”, he says to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.” Acts 8:1 says that a great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles; at 8:5–13 Philip goes down to the city of Samaria and proclaims the Christ, there is great joy in that city, and Simon, who had amazed the people of Samaria with his sorceries, also believes and is baptized; at 8:14–25 the apostles who are at Jerusalem hear that Samaria has received the word of God and send Peter and John, who return to Jerusalem and preach the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans; and 9:31 says that the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were built up. Acts 15:2–3 says that Paul, Barnabas, and some others, appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders, were sent on their way by the assembly and passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles, and caused great joy to all the brothers.
Cited evidence: 1KI 13:26–32, engwebp / 1KI 16:23–28, engwebp / 1KI 16:29–33, engwebp / 1KI 18:1–2, engwebp / 1KI 20:1–12, engwebp / 1KI 20:13–21, engwebp / 1KI 20:31–34, engwebp / 1KI 20:35–43, engwebp (and 77 more of 85)
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