The Samaritans

City of Samaria Capitol fo the Nation of Isreal

1 Kings 16:23-24 " 23 In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel and reignedtwelve years; he reigned six years at Tirzah.24 He bought the hill Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and named the city which he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.

After the fall of Sameria

They were moved backed and forth throughout Assyria. ○ 2 Kings 17:1-4 ○ 2 Kings 17:24-29

Samaritans

a mixed religion of Jews and foreigners

Main rivers

○Jordan ○Arnon ○JAbbok ○Yarmuk

Elevations

○Mt Carmel (Plain of Sharon near Mt Carmel) ○ Highlands ○Shephelah

TAD A4.7 (Nov 25, 407 BC)

● sanballat governor of Samaria ○Nehemiah 2:10 (ETC.) ○Akkadian name: Sinuballit ■ "Sin {the moon god} gives life" ○mentioned outside the Bible in a letter from Elephantini

Samaritans building

●Built a temple in Mt. Gerizim ○later destroyed by John Hyrcanus ●The Samaritans survive today in the city of Nablus.

Syria-Palestine

●Mediterranean sea ●Sea of Tiberias (Sea of Galilee)

Egypt

●Nile ○delta of the Nile ○Mediterranean sea

When the Jews returned from exile

●Samaritans offered to help (Ezra 4:1-2) ●rejected vs 3 ●resulted in hostility between Jews and Samaritans (v. 4-6)

content of letter

●YHW is how they spell God in elephantini ●there was once a temple of the Lord in Egypt ○probably built by refugees from Jerusalem ●temple had been destroyed ●The Jews in Egypt appealed for help from their brethren in Jerusalem to rebuild this temple