Samaria
This map shows the region of Samaria in the land of ancient
Israel.
The region of Samaria was known for its rich agriculture:
wheat and barley, grapes and olive vineyards. Jesus passed
through the land of Samaria on his way to and from
Jerusalem, but most people of that time would have gone
around Samaria. The exact boundaries of Samaria are ...
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sa-ma'-ri-a, (shomeron; Samareia, Semeron, and other forms):
(1) Shechem was the first capital of the Northern Kingdom (1
Ki 12:25). Jeroboam seems later to have removed the royal
residence to Tirzah (1 Ki 14:17). After the brief reigns of
Elah and Zimri came that of Omri, who reigned 6 years in
Tirzah, then he purchased the hill of Samaria and...
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1. City of, built by Omri
1Ki 16:24
Capitol of the kingdom of the ten tribes
1Ki 16:29; 22:51; 2Ki 13:1,10; 15:8
Besieged by Ben-hadad
1Ki 20; 2Ki 6:24-33; 7
The king of Syria is led into, by Elisha, who
miraculously
blinds him and his army
2Ki 6:8-23
Ahab ruled in
See AHAB
See JEZEBEL
Besieged by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, for thre...
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(watch mountain). This city is situated 30 miles north of
Jerusalem and about six miles to the northwest of Shechem,
in a wide basin-shaped valley, six miles in diameter,
encircled with high hills, almost on the edge of the great
plain which borders upon the Mediterranean. In the centre of
this basin, which is on a lower level than the valley ...
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a watch-mountain or a watch-tower. In the heart of the
mountains
of Israel, a few miles north-west of Shechem, stands
the "hill
of Shomeron," a solitary mountain, a great
"mamelon." It is an
oblong hill, with steep but not inaccessible sides,
and a long
flat top. Omri, the king of Israel, purchased this
hill from
Shemer its owner for two ...
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("a watch mountain".) The oblong terraced hill in the center
of a basinshaped, valley, a continuation of the Shethem
valley, six miles N.W. of Shechem. The owner, Shemer, sold
it for two silver talents to Omri king of Israel (925 B.C.),
who built on it a city and called it after Shomer (1 Kings
16:23-24). Shechem previously had been the capita...
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When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to
their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall
return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters
shall return to your former estate....
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When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of
Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her
daughters, then [will I bring again] the captivity of thy
captives in the midst of them:...
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Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast
multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast
justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou
hast done....
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