Midvash

Samaria

Samaria appears in 113 verses of the Bible, from 1 Kings to Micah.

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Key passages

  • For the message the Lord told him to proclaim against the altar in Bethel and against the pagan shrines in the towns of Samaria will certainly come true.”

    1 Kings 13:32 · Read the chapter

  • One day Israel’s new king, Ahaziah, fell through the latticework of an upper room at his palace in Samaria and was seriously injured. So he sent messengers to the temple of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether he would recover.

    2 Kings 1:2 · Read the chapter

  • A few years later he went to Samaria to visit Ahab, who prepared a great banquet for him and his officials. They butchered great numbers of sheep, goats, and cattle for the feast. Then Ahab enticed Jehoshaphat to join forces with him to recover Ramoth-gilead.

    2 Chronicles 18:2 · Read the chapter

  • They also sent greetings from the rest of the people whom the great and noble Ashurbanipal had deported and relocated in Samaria and throughout the neighboring lands of the province west of the Euphrates River.

    Ezra 4:10 · Read the chapter

  • saying in front of his friends and the Samarian army officers, “What does this bunch of poor, feeble Jews think they’re doing? Do they think they can build the wall in a single day by just offering a few sacrifices? Do they actually think they can make something of stones from a rubbish heap—and charred ones at that?”

    Nehemiah 4:2 · Read the chapter

  • Israel is no stronger than its capital, Samaria, and Samaria is no stronger than its king, Pekah son of Remaliah. Unless your faith is firm, I cannot make you stand firm.”

    Isaiah 7:9 · Read the chapter

Every verse (113)

Nehemiah
Neh 4:2
Obadiah
Oba 1:19

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