As you know I like to put up my unformed studies to perhaps make it a stepping stone for other people’s research. So here it goes, a history of Samaria.<\/p>\n
Jacob had erected an alter in Shechem (Gen 33:19,20) A blessing on Mt Gerzim, A curse on Mt Ebal (Deu In the Samaritan Pentateuch, apparently Ebal is replaced King Omri sought a different capital than Tirzah because Bought by Omri King of Cost 2 talents of silver (1 Kings Moved the capital of the 10 tribes to Omri (married Jezebel) and built a house to Baal in Idolatry was prevalent here (2 King 13:6) Syrians are led into Ben-Haded besieged Besieged by Shalmanesar of Assyria and the people are Jehu destroys house of Baal 2 Kings 10:17-28 by gathering Josiah did the job right (2 Kings Populated by foreigners by the mandate of the Assyrian King Rejected as family by Jews and eventually taken over by the John Hyrcanus (The Hasmonaean Kingdom) expanded his borders Disciples forbidden to preach there or in city of gentiles Upon meeting up with Jesus, many disciples were made in John Upon being preached Christ by Philip, many were made Holy Ghost enters the Samaritans in the presence of Peter As you know I like to put up my unformed studies to perhaps make it a stepping stone for other people’s research. So here it goes, a history of Samaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
Abraham passed through the
\n of
\nwith Gerzim (Matt 27:4)
\nZimri burnt down the palace and himself when Omri was coming to take him out 1
\nKing 16:18
\nbought the hill from Shemar and named it after him. (1 Kings
\n(1 Kings
\n(1 Kings
\nbesieged by Syrians led by Ben-Haded (1 King 20) when Ahab was in charge. Ahab
\nwas offered a deal which he agreed to but Ben-Haded wanted more and to this he
\ndisagreed. God took the side of
\nand sent the Syrians into the hands of Ahab, routing them one time and a year later
\nas well. Unfortunately, Ahab made a pact with Ben-Haded concerning the work in
\nthe streets, and Ahab let him go. God promised Ahab death, a life for a life,
\nbecause he did not fully destroy the enemies of God who said he was only God of
\nthe hills and not of the valleys.
\nby Elisha (during reign of Jehoram) when they were miraculously blinded (2 King
\n6:8-23). He stops the hand of the king and lets the men go, fed and knowing
\nthat they should be dead.
\nagain (2 Kings
\na horrid famine where people were eating their own children. Jehoram swore the
\ndeath of Elisha because of this.
\ncarried away to Halah, Habor and the city of the Medes(2 Kin 17:5, 6; 18:9-11)
\nall the priests of Baal in and locking the doors and slaying them all but left
\nup the ones in
\nKings
\n(Sargon II?) (2 Kings 17:24-41; Ezra 4:9,10) with even more idolatry entering
\ninto the land.
\nGreeks, Samaritans moved their place of worship to Shechem and built a temple
\non
\nThey eventually dedicated the temple to Zeus while the Jews drove out the
\nSeleucids under Antiochus Epiphanes who committed the abomination of the
\ndesolation.
\ninto
\nforced to pay heavy taxes to the Seleucids.
\n<\/span>He destroyed the temple at
\n
\ncontinued to worship there.
\ncity) had been given to Herod the Great by Emperor Augustus and renamed Sebaste
\nin honor of the emperor.
\nin Matt 10:5?the time had not yet come for that.
\n4:39-42
\ndisciples in Acts 8:5-8
\nand John?Acts
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