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Samaria

שֹׁמְרוֹןΣαμάρεια

Samaria was the capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel, and its inhabitants were known as Samaritans (1Ki. 16:24; 2Ki. 17:24; Jhn. 4:9; Act.8.5).

Where the story of Samaria happens Samaria, and 5 places the claims reach, framed to them: Samaria, Beth-eked, Bethel, Carmel_Mount, Jericho, Jerusalem. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.SamariaBeth-ekedBethelCarmel_MountJerichoJerusalem
Samaria, and 5 places the claims reach
verses
124
first named
1 Kings 13:32
last named
Acts 15:3
feature
region
coordinates
32.28°N · 35.20°E
region32.28°N · 35.20°E

Samaria (OpenBible)

The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.

IllustrationJohn 4A Samaritan woman returns to Sychar after leaving her jar at Jacob's well, while Jesus remains there and the townspeople approach him.

Description

Samaria in the text

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Samaria, the capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel, was built by King Omri around 880 BC (1Ki. 16:24). The city served as the royal residence and the center of political power for the northern kingdom until its fall to the Assyrians in 722 BC (2Ki. 17:5-6). After the Assyrian conquest, the region of Samaria was repopulated with people from various parts of the Assyrian Empire (2Ki. 17:24), who intermarried with the remaining Israelites and became known as Samaritans.

The Samaritans developed their own religious practices, which combined elements of Israelite tradition with foreign customs (2Ki. 17:26-28). They worshipped at Mount Gerizim instead of Jerusalem (Jhn. 4:20) and accepted only the first five books of the Bible as authoritative.

In the New Testament, Jesus encountered a Samaritan woman at Jacob's well (Jhn. 4:7-26) and used a Samaritan as an example of compassion in the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luk. 10:33). The early church spread to Samaria through the ministry of Philip (Act.8.5-25), and the apostles Peter and John later visited the region (Act.8.14-17).

Throughout the Bible, Samaria and the Samaritans are often portrayed as being in tension with the Jews due to religious and cultural differences (Jhn. 4:9; 8:48). However, Jesus and the early church demonstrated that the gospel was meant for all people, including the Samaritans.

Relations

Direct connections

Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

Associated with

Contains

Stands in the same events as

and 47 more, ordered by how many events they share.

The pattern

Where Samaria is named

Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

Where the name is written across the corpus. 124 verses across 16 of 66 books; 50 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKS1–2 KINGS62 VERSESISAIAH–JEREMIAH10 VERSESLUKE–ACTS19 VERSES10 books and 291 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 124 verses across 16 of 66 books; 50 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKS1–2 KINGS62 VERSESISAIAH–JEREMIAH10 VERSESLUKE–ACTS19 VERSES10 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT

124 verses across 16 of 66 books; 50 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Kings (17), 2 Kings (45), 2 Chronicles (8), Ezra (2), Nehemiah (1), Isaiah (7), Jeremiah (3), Ezekiel (6), Hosea (6), Amos (5), Obadiah (1), Micah (3), Matthew (1), Luke (4), John (7) and Acts (8).

Samaria is named in 124 verses, and the name is written 134 times in them — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 50 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

Read it

Where to read it

Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 124, across 16 books. The name is written 134 times in them.

  1. 1 Kings17 verses

    13:3216:2416:2816:2916:3218:220:120:1020:1720:3420:4321:121:1822:1022:3722:3822:51

  2. 2 Kings45 verses

    1:21:32:253:13:65:36:196:206:246:257:17:1810:110:1210:1710:3510:3613:113:613:913:1013:1314:1414:1614:2315:815:1315:1415:1715:2315:2515:2717:117:517:617:2417:2617:2817:2918:918:1018:3421:1323:1823:19

  3. 2 Chronicles8 verses

    18:218:922:925:1325:2428:828:928:15

  4. Ezra2 verses

    4:104:17

  5. Nehemiah1 verse

    4:2

  6. Isaiah7 verses

    7:98:49:910:910:1010:1136:19

  7. Jeremiah3 verses

    23:1331:541:5

  8. Ezekiel6 verses

    16:4616:5116:5316:5523:423:33

  9. Hosea6 verses

    7:18:58:610:510:713:16

  10. Amos5 verses

    3:93:124:16:18:14

  11. Obadiah1 verse

    1:19

  12. Micah3 verses

    1:11:51:6

  13. Matthew1 verse

    10:5

  14. Luke4 verses

    9:5210:3317:1117:16

  15. John7 verses

    4:44:54:74:94:394:408:48

  16. Acts8 verses

    1:88:18:58:98:148:259:3115:3

Onward

Where this page goes

Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

Where they appear

What happened here

Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

13 more chapters, from Jeremiah 23 to John 4

Sources

What this rests on