SAMARIA

Passages on this topic · 150

• 1 Kings 16:24

  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 16:29

  In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel. Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.

• 1 Kings 16:32

  He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

• 1 Kings 22:51

  Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.

• 2 Kings 6:8

  Now the king of Syria was at war against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”

• 2 Kings 6:9

  The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, “Beware that you not pass this place; for the Syrians are coming down there.”

• 2 Kings 6:10

  The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once or twice.

• 2 Kings 6:11

  The king of Syria’s heart was very troubled about this. He called his servants, and said to them, “Won’t you show me which of us is for the king of Israel?”

• 2 Kings 6:12

  One of his servants said, “No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”

• 2 Kings 6:13

  He said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him.” He was told, “Behold, he is in Dothan.”

• 2 Kings 6:14

  Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night, and surrounded the city.

• 2 Kings 6:15

  When the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”

• 2 Kings 6:16

  He answered, “Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

• 2 Kings 6:17

  Elisha prayed, and said, “Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see.” Yahweh opened the young man’s eyes; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.

• 2 Kings 6:18

  When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.” He struck them with blindness according to Elishah’s word.

• 2 Kings 6:19

  Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” He led them to Samaria.

• 2 Kings 6:20

  When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, “Yahweh, open these men’s eyes, that they may see.” Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the middle of Samaria.

• 2 Kings 6:21

  The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”

• 2 Kings 6:22

  He answered, “You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.”

• 2 Kings 6:23

  He prepared great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria stopped raiding the land of Israel.

• 2 Kings 6:24

  After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.

• 2 Kings 6:25

  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.

• 2 Kings 6:26

  As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”

• 2 Kings 6:27

  He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”

• 2 Kings 6:28

  The king said to her, “What is your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

• 2 Kings 6:29

  So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son.”

• 2 Kings 6:30

  When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his body.

• 2 Kings 6:31

  Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”

• 2 Kings 6:32

  But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”

• 2 Kings 6:33

  While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”

• 2 Kings 10:17

  When he came to Samaria, he struck all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke to Elijah.

• 2 Kings 10:18

  Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.

• 2 Kings 10:19

  Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshipers, and all of his priests. Let no one be absent; for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live.” But Jehu did deceptively, intending to destroy the worshipers of Baal.

• 2 Kings 10:20

  Jehu said, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!” So they proclaimed it.

• 2 Kings 10:21

  Jehu sent through all Israel; and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn’t come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another.

• 2 Kings 10:22

  He said to him who kept the wardrobe, “Bring out robes for all the worshipers of Baal!” So he brought robes out to them.

• 2 Kings 10:23

  Jehu went with Jehonadab the son of Rechab into the house of Baal. Then he said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search, and see that none of the servants of Yahweh are here with you, but only the worshipers of Baal.”

• 2 Kings 10:24

  So they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men outside, and said, “If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.”

• 2 Kings 10:25

  As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in and kill them! Let no one escape.” So they struck them with the edge of the sword. The guard and the captains threw the bodies out, and went to the inner shrine of the house of Baal.

• 2 Kings 10:26

  They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them.

• 2 Kings 10:27

  They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.

• 2 Kings 10:28

  Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.

• 2 Kings 13:1

  In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria for seventeen years.

• 2 Kings 13:6

  Nevertheless they didn’t depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria.)

• 2 Kings 13:10

  In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria for sixteen years.

• 2 Kings 15:8

  In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria six months.

• 2 Kings 17:5

  Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

• 2 Kings 17:6

  In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

• 2 Kings 17:24

  The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, from Cuthah, from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in its cities.

• 2 Kings 17:25

  So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn’t fear Yahweh. Therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

• 2 Kings 17:26

  Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations which you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria don’t know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them, because they don’t know the law of the god of the land.”

• 2 Kings 17:27

  Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, “Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.”

• 2 Kings 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 Yahweh.

• 2 Kings 17:29

  However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.

• 2 Kings 17:30

  The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

• 2 Kings 17:31

  and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

• 2 Kings 17:32

  So they feared Yahweh, and also made from among themselves priests of the high places for themselves, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

• 2 Kings 17:33

  They feared Yahweh, and also served their own gods, after the ways of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

• 2 Kings 17:34

  To this day they do what they did before. They don’t fear Yahweh, and they do not follow the statutes, or the ordinances, or the law, or the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

• 2 Kings 17:35

  with whom Yahweh had made a covenant, and commanded them, saying, “You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them;

• 2 Kings 17:36

  but you shall fear Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, and you shall bow yourselves to him, and you shall sacrifice to him.

• 2 Kings 17:37

  The statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do forever more. You shall not fear other gods.

• 2 Kings 17:38

  You shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods.

• 2 Kings 17:39

  But you shall fear Yahweh your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”

• 2 Kings 17:40

  However they did not listen, but they did what they did before.

• 2 Kings 17:41

  So these nations feared Yahweh, and also served their engraved images. Their children likewise, and their children’s children, as their fathers did, so they do to this day.

• 2 Kings 18:9

  In the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

• 2 Kings 18:10

  At the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

• 2 Kings 18:11

  The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

• 2 Kings 23:19

  All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

• Ezra 4:9

  then Rehum the chancellor, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,

• Ezra 4:10

  and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River, and so forth, wrote.

• Isaiah 7:9

  and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’”

• Matthew 10:5

  Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.

• Luke 10:33

  But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

• Luke 10:34

  came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

• Luke 10:35

  On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’

• Luke 17:11

  As he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.

• Luke 17:12

  As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.

• Luke 17:13

  They lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

• Luke 17:14

  When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” As they went, they were cleansed.

• Luke 17:15

  One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice.

• Luke 17:16

  He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.

• Luke 17:17

  Jesus answered, “Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine?

• Luke 17:18

  Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this stranger?”

• Luke 17:19

  Then he said to him, “Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you.”

• John 4:1

  Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

• John 4:2

  (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),

• John 4:3

  he left Judea, and departed into Galilee.

• John 4:4

  He needed to pass through Samaria.

• John 4:5

  So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.

• John 4:6

  Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

• John 4:7

  A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”

• John 4:8

  For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

• John 4:9

  The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

• John 4:10

  Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

• John 4:11

  The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?

• John 4:12

  Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?”

• John 4:13

  Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

• John 4:14

  but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

• John 4:15

  The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”

• John 4:16

  Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

• John 4:17

  The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’

• John 4:18

  for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”

• John 4:19

  The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

• John 4:20

  Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

• John 4:21

  Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

• John 4:22

  You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

• John 4:23

  But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.

• John 4:24

  God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

• John 4:25

  The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”

• John 4:26

  Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”

• John 4:27

  At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”

• John 4:28

  So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,

• John 4:29

  “Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?”

• John 4:30

  They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

• John 4:31

  In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

• John 4:32

  But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

• John 4:33

  The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”

• John 4:34

  Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

• John 4:35

  Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

• John 4:36

  He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

• John 4:37

  For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’

• John 4:38

  I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

• John 4:39

  From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”

• John 4:40

  So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

• John 4:41

  Many more believed because of his word.

• John 4:42

  They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

• Acts 8:5

  Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.

• Acts 8:6

  The multitudes listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip, when they heard and saw the signs which he did.

• Acts 8:7

  For unclean spirits came out of many of those who had them. They came out, crying with a loud voice. Many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.

• Acts 8:8

  There was great joy in that city.

• 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,

• Acts 8:10

  to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is that great power of God.”

• Acts 8:11

  They listened to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.

• Acts 8:12

  But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

• Acts 8:13

  Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.

• Acts 8:14

  Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,

• Acts 8:15

  who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;

• Acts 8:16

  for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.

• Acts 8:17

  Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

• Acts 8:18

  Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,

• Acts 8:19

  saying, “Give me also this power, that whomever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”

• Acts 8:20

  But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

• Acts 8:21

  You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.

• Acts 8:22

  Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

• Acts 8:23

  For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

• Acts 8:24

  Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me.”

• Acts 8:25

  They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans.

• Acts 15:3

  They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.