1 Kings 16:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He got the hill Samaria from Shemer for the price of two talents of silver, and he made a town there, building it on the hill and naming it Samaria, after Shemer the owner of the hill.

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  • 1 Kgs 13:32 : 32 For the outcry he made by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, will certainly come about.
  • 1 Kgs 16:28-29 : 28 So Omri went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place. 29 In the thirty-eighth year that Asa was king of Judah, Ahab, the son of Omri, became king over Israel; and Ahab was king in Samaria for twenty-two years.
  • 1 Kgs 16:32 : 32 And he put up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he had made in Samaria.
  • 1 Kgs 18:2 : 2 So Elijah went to let Ahab see him. Now there was no food to be had in Samaria.
  • 1 Kgs 20:1 : 1 Now Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got all his army together, and thirty-two kings with him, and horses and carriages of war; he went up and made war on Samaria, shutting it in.
  • 1 Kgs 22:37 : 37 And they came to Samaria, and put the king's body to rest in Samaria.
  • 2 Kgs 17:1 : 1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz, king of Judah, Hoshea, the son of Elah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for nine years.
  • 2 Kgs 17:6 : 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and took Israel away to Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes.
  • 2 Kgs 17:24 : 24 Then the king of Assyria took men from Babylon and from Cuthah and Avva and Hamath and Sepharvaim, and put them in the towns of Samaria in place of the children of Israel; so they got Samaria for their heritage, living in its towns.
  • John 4:4-5 : 4 And it was necessary for him to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria which was named Sychar, near to the bit of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph:
  • Acts 8:5-8 : 5 And Philip went down to Samaria and was teaching them about Christ. 6 And all the people gave attention to the words which Philip said, when they saw the signs which he did. 7 For unclean spirits came out from those who had them, crying with a loud voice; and a number of those who were ill and broken in body were made well. 8 And there was much joy in that town.

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  • 1 Kgs 16:23
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    23 In the thirty-first year of Asa, king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel, and he was king for twelve years; for six years he was ruling in Tirzah.

  • 1 Kgs 16:25-29
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    25 And Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all those before him,

    26 Copying all the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and all the sins he did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath by their foolish ways.

    27 Now the rest of the acts which Omri did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

    28 So Omri went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place.

    29 In the thirty-eighth year that Asa was king of Judah, Ahab, the son of Omri, became king over Israel; and Ahab was king in Samaria for twenty-two years.

  • 1 Kgs 16:32
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    32 And he put up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he had made in Samaria.

  • 2 Kgs 6:24
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    24 Now after this, Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got together all his army and went up to make an attack on Samaria, shutting the town in on all sides with his forces.

  • 1 Kgs 16:15-18
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    15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa, king of Judah, Zimri was king for seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were attacking Gibbethon in the land of the Philistines.

    16 And news came to the people in the tents that Zimri had made a secret design and had put the king to death: so all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king that day in the tents.

    17 Then Omri went up from Gibbethon, with all the army of Israel, and they made an attack on Tirzah, shutting in the town on every side.

    18 And when Zimri saw that the town was taken, he went into the inner room of the king's house, and burning the house over his head, came to his end,

  • Mic 1:6
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    6 So I will make Samaria into a field and the plantings of a vine-garden: I will send its stones falling down into the valley, uncovering its bases.

  • Gen 33:19-20
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    19 And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents.

    20 And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of Israel.

  • Deut 3:9
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    9 (By the Sidonians, Hermon is named Sirion, and by the Amorites Shenir;)

  • 1 Kgs 12:25
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    25 Then Jeroboam made the town of Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim a strong place, and was living there; and from there he went out and did the same to Penuel.

  • 2 Chr 27:3-4
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    3 He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.

    4 In addition, he made towns in the hill-country of Judah, and strong buildings and towers in the woodlands.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
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    15 Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

  • 1 Chr 21:24-25
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    24 And King David said to Ornan, No; I will certainly give you the full price for it, because I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or give a burned offering without payment.

    25 So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.

  • 2 Kgs 17:24
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    24 Then the king of Assyria took men from Babylon and from Cuthah and Avva and Hamath and Sepharvaim, and put them in the towns of Samaria in place of the children of Israel; so they got Samaria for their heritage, living in its towns.

  • 2 Chr 25:6
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    6 And for a hundred talents of silver, he got a hundred thousand fighting-men from Israel.

  • Jer 32:9
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    9 So I got for a price the property in Anathoth from Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, and gave him the money, seventeen shekels of silver;

  • 2 Kgs 15:14
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    14 Then Menahem, the son of Gadi, went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and attacking Shallum, son of Jabesh, in Samaria, put him to death and made himself king in his place.

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    4 And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

  • 2 Kgs 18:9-10
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    9 Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria, shutting it in with his armies.

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    50 By the orders of the Lord they gave him the town for which he made request, Timnath-serah in the hill-country of Ephraim: there, after building the town, he made his living-place.

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    21 Then there was a division among the people of Israel; half the people were for making Tibni, son of Ginath, king, and half were supporting Omri.

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    25 From there he went to Mount Carmel, and came back from there to Samaria.

  • Acts 7:16
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    16 And they were taken over to Shechem, and put to rest in the place which Abraham got for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

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    4 And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.

  • 1 Kgs 10:27
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    27 And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.

  • 2 Chr 9:27
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    27 The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.

  • 2 Chr 3:1
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  • 1 Kgs 13:32
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    32 For the outcry he made by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, will certainly come about.

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  • 2 Chr 1:15
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    15 And the king made silver and gold as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedar like the sycamore-trees of the lowland in number.

  • 1 Kgs 22:37
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    37 And they came to Samaria, and put the king's body to rest in Samaria.

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    6 He was the builder of Beth-lehem and Etam and Tekoa

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    6 He went out and made war against the Philistines, pulling down the walls of Gath and Jabneh and Ashdod, and building towns in the country round Ashdod and among the Philistines.