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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 happensSamaria, 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.

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

    via Ahab’s reign and Ahaziah’s reign, and 7 moreReignReign is a concept gathering 158 labelled instances in the text.via Jehu’s killing of Remaining House Of Ahab, Great Men, Close Friends, and Priests and Jehu Letters, and 1 moreJehuSon of Jehoshaphat, king of Israel, destroyed Ahab's dynasty.via Ahab’s reign and Ahaziah’s reign, and 2 moreIsraelPatriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribesvia Ahab’s reign and Ahaziah’s reign, and 2 moreAhabWicked king of Israel; husband of Jezebelvia Menahem’s reign and Pekahiah’s reignMenahemKing of Israel who reigned for ten years.via Menahem’s reign and Shallum’s reignShallumKing of Israel who conspired against Zechariahvia Joash’s reign and Jeroboam’s reignJoashKing of Israel, son of Jehoahazvia Pekah’s reign and Pekahiah’s reignPekahiahKing of Israel who reigned for 2 yearsvia Jehoahaz’s reign and Joash’s reignJehoahazKing of Israel, son of Jehu

    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

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