1 Kings 13:32

32 aFor the saying that he called out by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against ball the houses of the high places that are in the cities of cSamaria shall surely come to pass.”

1 Kings 16:24

24He bought the hill of dSamaria from Shemer for two talents
A  talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of silver, and he fortified the hill and called the name of the city that he built fSamaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.

2 Kings 17:5-6

5Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.

The Fall of Israel

6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria gcaptured Samaria, hand he carried the Israelites away to Assyria iand placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of jGozan, and in the cities of kthe Medes.

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