Samaria

Samaria was the capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel, and its inhabitants were known as Samaritans.

The name Samaria means “watch-mountain”

PlaceOld & New Testaments16 books141 verses

Summary

A location first mentioned at 1 Kings 13:32; referred to as Samaria (שֹׁמְרוֹן, Aramiac שׇֽׁמְרָ֑יִן), Samaritan (שֹׁמרֹנִי), Samaria (Σαμάρεια), or Samaritan (Σαμαρείτης, Σαμαρεῖτις).

Location

Certainty
Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)
Coordinates
32.276° N, 35.195° E
Samaria
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Events

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Samaria

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Mentions

Includes 17 verses that refer to Samaria without naming it.

  1. 1 Kings 13:32שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    …for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”
  2. 1 Kings 16:24שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city there, calling it Samaria after the name of Shemer, who had owned the hill.
  3. 1 Kings 16:28שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    And Omri rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and his son Ahab reigned in his place.
  4. 1 Kings 16:29שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    In the thirty-eighth year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twenty-two years.
  5. 1 Kings 16:32שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    First, Ahab set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria.
  6. 1 Kings 18:2שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria,
  7. 1 Kings 20:1שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Now Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army. Accompanied by thirty-two kings with their horses and chariots, he marched up, besieged Samaria, and waged war against it.
  8. 1 Kings 20:10שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Then Ben-hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if enough dust remains of Samaria for each of my men to have a handful.”
  9. 1 Kings 20:17שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    And the young officers of the district governors marched out first. Now Ben-hadad had sent out scouts, who reported to him, “Men are marching out of Samaria.”
  10. 1 Kings 20:34שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Ben-hadad said to him, “I will restore the cities my father took from your father; you may set up your own marketplaces in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” “By this treaty I release you,” Ahab replied. So he made a treaty with him and sent him away.
  11. 1 Kings 20:43שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Sullen and angry, the king of Israel went home to Samaria.
  12. 1 Kings 21:1שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Some time after these events, Naboth the Jezreelite owned a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
  13. 1 Kings 21:18שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    “Get up and go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria. See, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession of it.
  14. 1 Kings 22:10שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Dressed in royal attire, the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance of the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them.
  15. 1 Kings 22:37שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    So the king died and was brought to Samaria, where they buried him.
  16. 1 Kings 22:38שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    And the chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria where the prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked up Ahab’s blood, according to the word that the LORD had spoken.
  17. 1 Kings 22:51שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    In the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat’s reign over Judah, Ahaziah son of Ahab became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria two years.
  18. 2 Kings 1:2שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”
  19. 2 Kings 1:3שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are on your way to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’
  20. 2 Kings 2:25שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    And Elisha went on to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.
  21. 2 Kings 3:1שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    In the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat’s reign over Judah, Jehoram son of Ahab became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twelve years.
  22. 2 Kings 3:6שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    So at that time King Jehoram set out from Samaria and mobilized all Israel.
  23. 2 Kings 5:3שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    She said to her mistress, “If only my master would go to the prophet who is in Samaria, he would cure him of his leprosy.”
  24. 2 Kings 6:19שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    And Elisha told them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will take you to the man you are seeking.” And he led them to Samaria.
  25. 2 Kings 6:20שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    When they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O LORD, open the eyes of these men that they may see.” Then the LORD opened their eyes, and they looked around and discovered that they were in Samaria.
  26. 2 Kings 6:24שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.
  27. 2 Kings 6:25שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.
  28. 2 Kings 7:1שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel.’”
  29. 2 Kings 7:18שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    It happened just as the man of God had told the king: “About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel.”
  30. 2 Kings 10:1שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying:
  31. 2 Kings 10:12שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Then Jehu set out toward Samaria. At Beth-eked of the Shepherds,
  32. 2 Kings 10:17שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    When Jehu came to Samaria, he struck down everyone belonging to Ahab who remained there, until he had destroyed them, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to Elijah.
  33. 2 Kings 10:35שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    And Jehu rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and his son Jehoahaz reigned in his place.
  34. 2 Kings 10:36שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    So the duration of Jehu’s reign over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
  35. 2 Kings 13:1שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    In the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash son of Ahaziah over Judah, Jehoahaz son of Jehu became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria seventeen years.
  36. 2 Kings 13:6שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Nevertheless, they did not turn away from the sins that the house of Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit, but they continued to walk in them. The Asherah pole even remained standing in Samaria.
  37. 2 Kings 13:9שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    And Jehoahaz rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria. And his son Jehoash reigned in his place.
  38. 2 Kings 13:10שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    In the thirty-seventh year of the reign of Joash over Judah, Jehoash son of Jehoahaz became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned sixteen years.
  39. 2 Kings 13:13שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    And Jehoash rested with his fathers, and Jeroboam succeeded him on the throne. Jehoash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
  40. 2 Kings 14:14שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace, as well as some hostages. Then he returned to Samaria.
  41. 2 Kings 14:16שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    And Jehoash rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And his son Jeroboam reigned in his place.
  42. 2 Kings 14:23שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    In the fifteenth year of the reign of Amaziah son of Joash over Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria forty-one years.
  43. 2 Kings 15:8שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah’s reign over Judah, Zechariah son of Jeroboam became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria six months.
  44. 2 Kings 15:13שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    In the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah’s reign over Judah, Shallum son of Jabesh became king, and he reigned in Samaria one full month.
  45. 2 Kings 15:14שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Then Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to Samaria, struck down and killed Shallum son of Jabesh, and reigned in his place.
  46. 2 Kings 15:17שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah’s reign over Judah, Menahem son of Gadi became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria ten years.
  47. 2 Kings 15:23שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    In the fiftieth year of Azariah’s reign over Judah, Pekahiah son of Menahem became king of Israel and reigned in Samaria two years.
  48. 2 Kings 15:25שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Then his officer, Pekah son of Remaliah, conspired against him along with Argob, Arieh, and fifty men of Gilead. And at the citadel of the king’s palace in Samaria, Pekah struck down and killed Pekahiah and reigned in his place.
  49. 2 Kings 15:27שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    In the fifty-second year of Azariah’s reign over Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twenty years.
  50. 2 Kings 17:1שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    In the twelfth year of the reign of Ahaz over Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria nine years.
  51. 2 Kings 17:5שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.
  52. 2 Kings 17:6שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
  53. 2 Kings 17:24שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns.
  54. 2 Kings 17:26שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The peoples that you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land. Because of this, He has sent lions among them, which are indeed killing them off.”
  55. 2 Kings 17:28שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Thus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the LORD.
  56. 2 Kings 17:29שֹׁמרֹנִי · Samaria
    Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.
  57. 2 Kings 18:9שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.
  58. 2 Kings 18:10שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    And at the end of three years, the Assyrians captured it. So Samaria was captured in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel.
  59. 2 Kings 18:34שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
  60. 2 Kings 21:13שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.
  61. 2 Kings 23:18שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    “Let him rest,” said Josiah. “Do not let anyone disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed, along with those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.
  62. 2 Kings 23:19שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Just as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had provoked the LORD to anger.
  63. 2 Chronicles 18:2שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    And some years later he went down to visit Ahab in Samaria, where Ahab sacrificed many sheep and cattle for him and the people with him and urged him to march up to Ramoth-gilead.
  64. 2 Chronicles 18:9שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Dressed in royal attire, the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance of the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them.
  65. 2 Chronicles 22:9שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Then Jehu looked for Ahaziah, and Jehu’s soldiers captured him while he was hiding in Samaria. So Ahaziah was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” So no one was left from the house of Ahaziah with the strength to rule the kingdom.
  66. 2 Chronicles 25:13שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Meanwhile the troops that Amaziah had dismissed from battle raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon. They struck down 3,000 people and carried off a great deal of plunder.
  67. 2 Chronicles 25:24שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the house of God with Obed-edom and in the treasuries of the royal palace, as well as some hostages. Then he returned to Samaria.
  68. 2 Chronicles 28:8שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their kinsmen—women, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a great deal of plunder and brought it to Samaria.
  69. 2 Chronicles 28:9שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
  70. 2 Chronicles 28:15שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Then the men who were designated by name arose, took charge of the captives, and provided from the plunder clothing for the naked. They clothed them, gave them sandals and food and drink, anointed their wounds, and put all the feeble on donkeys. So they brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.
  71. Ezra 4:10שׇֽׁמְרָ֑יִן · Samaria
    …and the rest of the peoples whom the great and honorable Ashurbanipal deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and elsewhere west of the Euphrates.
  72. Ezra 4:17שׇֽׁמְרָ֑יִן · Samaria
    Then the king sent this reply: To Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of your associates living in Samaria and elsewhere in the region west of the Euphrates: Greetings.
  73. Nehemiah 4:2שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    …before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”
  74. Isaiah 7:9שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all.’”
  75. Isaiah 8:4שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”
  76. Isaiah 8:6Referred to, not named
    “Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
  77. Isaiah 9:9שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    All the people will know it—Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say:
  78. Isaiah 10:9שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    “Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
  79. Isaiah 10:10שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
  80. Isaiah 10:11שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    …and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”
  81. Isaiah 36:19שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
  82. Jeremiah 23:13שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    “Among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.
  83. Jeremiah 31:5שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.
  84. Jeremiah 41:5שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    …eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their garments, and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, carrying grain offerings and frankincense for the house of the LORD.
  85. Ezekiel 16:46שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to your north; and your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to your south.
  86. Ezekiel 16:51שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have multiplied your abominations beyond theirs, and all the abominations you have committed have made your sisters appear righteous.
  87. Ezekiel 16:53שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    But I will restore Sodom and her daughters from captivity, as well as Samaria and her daughters. And I will restore you along with them.
  88. Ezekiel 16:55שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to their former state. You and your daughters will also return to your former state.
  89. Ezekiel 23:4שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    The older was named Oholah, and her sister was named Oholibah. They became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their identities, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
  90. Ezekiel 23:33שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.
  91. Hosea 7:1שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets.
  92. Hosea 8:5שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
  93. Hosea 8:6שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.
  94. Hosea 8:7Referred to, not named
    For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
  95. Hosea 10:5שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn over it with its idolatrous priests—those who rejoiced in its glory—for it has been taken from them into exile.
  96. Hosea 10:7שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Samaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.
  97. Hosea 13:16שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
  98. Amos 3:9שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Proclaim to the citadels of Ashdod and to the citadels of Egypt: “Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest in the city and the acts of oppression in her midst.”
  99. Amos 3:10Referred to, not named
    “For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
  100. Amos 3:11Referred to, not named
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.”
  101. Amos 3:12שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    This is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.
  102. Amos 4:1שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
  103. Amos 6:1שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
  104. Amos 8:14שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”
  105. Obadiah 1:19שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau; those from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
  106. Micah 1:1שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    This is the word of the LORD that came to Micah the Moreshite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem:
  107. Micah 1:5שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    All this is for the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?
  108. Micah 1:6שֹׁמְרוֹן · Samaria
    Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble in the open field, a planting area for a vineyard. I will pour her stones into the valley and expose her foundations.
  109. Micah 1:7Referred to, not named
    All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.
  110. Micah 1:9Referred to, not named
    For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.
  111. Matthew 10:5Σαμαρείτης · Samaritan
    These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go onto the road of the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans.
  112. Luke 9:52Σαμαρείτης · Samaritan
    He sent messengers on ahead, who went into a village of the Samaritans to make arrangements for Him.
  113. Luke 10:33Σαμαρείτης · Samaritan
    But a Samaritan on a journey came upon him, and when he saw him, he had compassion.
  114. Luke 10:34Referred to, not named
    He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
  115. Luke 10:35Referred to, not named
    The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Take care of him,’ he said, ‘and on my return I will repay you for any additional expense.’
  116. Luke 10:37Referred to, not named
    “The one who showed him mercy,” replied the expert in the law. Then Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
  117. Luke 17:11Σαμάρεια · Samaria
    While Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem, He was passing between Samaria and Galilee.
  118. Luke 17:16Σαμαρείτης · Samaritan
    He fell facedown at Jesus’ feet in thanksgiving to Him—and he was a Samaritan.
  119. John 4:4Σαμάρεια · Samaria
    Now He had to pass through Samaria.
  120. John 4:5Σαμάρεια · Samaria
    So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
  121. John 4:7Σαμάρεια · Samaria
    When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
  122. John 4:9Σαμαρεῖτις · Samaria; Σαμαρείτης · Samaritan
    “You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
  123. John 4:12Referred to, not named
    Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”
  124. John 4:20Referred to, not named
    Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”
  125. John 4:21Referred to, not named
    “Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
  126. John 4:22Referred to, not named
    You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
  127. John 4:25Referred to, not named
    The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”
  128. John 4:39Σαμαρείτης · Samaritan
    Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”
  129. John 4:40Σαμαρείτης · Samaritan
    So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days.
  130. John 8:48Σαμαρείτης · Samaritan
    The Jews answered Him, “Are we not right to say that You are a Samaritan and You have a demon?”
  131. Acts 1:8Σαμάρεια · Samaria
    But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
  132. Acts 8:1Σαμάρεια · Samaria
    And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen’s death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
  133. Acts 8:5Σαμάρεια · Samaria
    Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them.
  134. Acts 8:9Σαμάρεια · Samaria
    Prior to that time, a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and astounded the people of Samaria. He claimed to be someone great,
  135. Acts 8:14Σαμάρεια · Samaria
    When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.
  136. Acts 8:15Referred to, not named
    On their arrival, they prayed for them to receive the Holy Spirit.
  137. Acts 8:16Referred to, not named
    For the Holy Spirit had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
  138. Acts 8:17Referred to, not named
    Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
  139. Acts 8:25Σαμαρείτης · Samaritan
    And after Peter and John had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many of the Samaritan villages.
  140. Acts 9:31Σαμάρεια · Samaria
    Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It grew in strength and numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.
  141. Acts 15:3Σαμάρεια · Samaria
    Sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, recounting the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers.