Samaria

Sources and location confidence

Location confidence

Very High

Sebastia

32.2761, 35.1950

The two sources' coordinates match exactly; the site is the ruins at the present-day village of Sebastia.

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Related Bible passages

These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.

• 1 Kings 13:32

  For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

• 2 Kings 1:2

  And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.

• 2 Chronicles 18:2

  And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramothgilead.

• Ezra 4:10

  And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time.

• Nehemiah 4:2

  And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

• Isaiah 7:9

  And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

• Jeremiah 23:13

  And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

• Ezekiel 16:46

  And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.