samaria in English

noun
1
an ancient city in central Palestine, founded in the 9th century bc as the capital of the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel. The ancient site is situated in the modern West Bank, northwest of Nablus.
2
the region of ancient Palestine around Samaria, between Galilee in the north and Judaea in the south.

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1. 9 Philip performed many signs in Samaria.

2. Apparently referring to the capital city, Samaria.

3. Apostate Samaria deserved the punishment that it received.

4. The Ancient Assyrians who Conquered Samaria

5. SIMON of Samaria was highly regarded in his community.

6. So, what happened to Samaria would also happen to Jerusalem.

7. So the expression “the head of the fertile valley” refers to Samaria.

8. What will happen to Jerusalem and Samaria, and why?

9. Compare the fate of Samaria as described in Ezekiel 23:1-10.

10. They are the Samaria ostraca, the Arad ostraca, and the Lachish ostraca.

11. In 740 B.C.E., Samaria falls, trampled under Assyrian feet. —2 Kings 18:10.

12. [ Assyria Resettles Samaria] Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they took possession of Samaria and dwelt in its cities.

13. Jerusalem is said to be the younger sister and Samaria, her older sister.

14. Samaria Jesus taught a woman about living water at a well in this land.

15. “If only my lord were before the prophet that is in Samaria!” she said.

16. Having forsaken Jehovah, Samaria has no right to expect him to intervene.

17. Like idolatrous Samaria, Christendom claims to worship Jehovah, but she is apostate to the core.

18. 15 Jeremiah recorded the account about Jezebel, the wicked wife of King Ahab of Samaria.

19. ‘What,’ he reasons, ‘is to prevent me from doing to Jerusalem what I did to Samaria?’

20. The shortest route —a journey of about three days— takes them through Samaria.

21. To reach that little village from Nazareth, travelers covered some 80 hilly miles (130 km) via Samaria.

22. Persecution early caused ‘all except the apostles to be scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.’

23. They would preach in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, “and to the most distant part of the earth.”

24. Go preach in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth.’

25. The inhabitants of Jerusalem are only too aware of what has happened to Samaria.

26. Jehonadab accepted that invitation, got into Jehu’s chariot, and rode with him to Samaria.

27. (8:1-4) Persecution scattered all the disciples except the apostles throughout Judea and Samaria.

28. There, in Israel, with its capital at Samaria, he was to proclaim a most unpopular message of doom.

29. Doubtless, there were literal drunkards in Israel, since Samaria was the scene of licentious pagan worship.

30. The Assyrians The Ancient Assyrians who Conquered Samaria The Assyrians dwelt in the region of the upper Tigris River

31. This woman met Jesus as he rested from walking all morning over dusty roads in the hills of Samaria.

32. They still grace the coastal Plain of Sharon, the rocky hillsides of Samaria, and the fertile valleys of Galilee.

33. The district of Samaria was the first region outside of Judea to receive the Christian good news (Ac 8:1-5)

34. Jesus and his disciples were on their way from Judea to Galilee and had to pass through Samaria.

35. How closely does an Assyrian account of Sargon compare with the Bible account regarding the conquest of Samaria?

36. Later on, it widened out into all Judea, then Samaria, and finally “to the most distant part of the earth.”

37. In his search for a cure, he traveled to Samaria thinking that he would get a personal audience with Elisha.

38. Indeed, she won recognition, much “distinction”, as an adulteress.... Yet she was, before being forgiven, she was the “apostle” of Samaria.

39. As a result, violence flared up throughout Judea, Samaria, Galilee, the Decapolis, and Phoenicia, north into Syria, and south into Egypt.

40. Because the king of Assyria brought Captives from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sephar-vaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria to replace the Israelis, the …

41. Ezekiel 23 Allegorizes Samaria and Jerusalem, the Israelite and Judahite capitals, as two sisters with a host of foreign lovers while both are married to Yahweh

42. The Assyrian captivity (or the Assyrian exile) is the period in the history of Ancient Israel and Judah during which several thousand Israelites of ancient Samaria were resettled as captives by Assyria

43. Ahab Attacks the Arameans - A little while later, King Ben-hadad of Aram mustered an army of cavalry and chariots in a military confederacy with 32 kings, invaded Samaria, and set up siege encampments there

44. When Ben-hadad bragged about destroying Samaria, Israel’s king answered: “Do not let one girding on [his armor in preparation for battle] boast about himself like one unfastening” his armor after returning victorious from battle.

45. ‘One Assyriologist writes, ‘Sennacherib stands out among Assyrian kings as a man of exceptional enterprise and open-mindedness'.’ ‘First of all, in no chronology proposed by biblical scholars or Assyriologists does the siege of Samaria begin in 722.’

46. Boasted (12 Occurrences) Acts 8:9 But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one, (See NIV)

47. Jesus promises a geographic expansion at the outset, and Acts follows the news of his death and resurrection as it spreads from a small group of disciples in Jerusalem to Judea, Samaria, and the faraway capital of Rome.

48. While it is true that Samaria, the capital of the northern kingdom, had already fallen to Assyria in 740 B.C.E., in Hezekiah’s sixth year (2Ki 18:9, 10), it is probable that some of the population fled into the southern kingdom before the Assyrians’ advance.

49. (Ac 8:4-13) So when the apostles “heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they dispatched Peter and John to them,” that these baptized believers might receive the free gift of the holy spirit. —Ac 8:14-17.

50. It was once common throughout the Aegean but the peaks of the 2,400 m (8,000 ft) White Mountains of Western Crete are their last strongholds—particularly a series of almost vertical 900 m (3,000 ft) cliffs called 'the Untrodden'—at the head of the Samaria Gorge.