{"id":6786,"date":"2023-01-03T09:35:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T15:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/?p=6786"},"modified":"2025-08-15T07:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:47:54","slug":"%e6%92%92%e7%8e%9b%e5%88%a9%e4%ba%9a%e4%b9%8b%e4%ba%8c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/bible-faith\/devotional-notes\/2023\/01\/%e6%92%92%e7%8e%9b%e5%88%a9%e4%ba%9a%e4%b9%8b%e4%ba%8c\/","title":{"rendered":"Samaria Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When the northern kingdom of Israel first began, Jeroboam established Shechem as his capital, later moving it to Tirzah. King Omri of Israel reigned in Tirzah for six years before moving the capital to Samaria. 1 Kings 16:24 states, “He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city on the hill, calling it Samaria, after Shemer, the name of the former owner of the hill.” Samaria Hill is located about 11 kilometers northwest of Shechem and has abundant water sources. The city of Samaria was strongly fortified and easy to defend. The two main north-south roads of the central highlands were nearby, providing easy access to the Jezreel Valley in the north, Shechem in the southeast, and the coastal plain to the west. Samaria subsequently served as the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel until its capture by Assyria. The name “Samaria” also came to be used as a designation for the entire northern kingdom of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Above: The ruins of the white royal palace excavated at the Samaria acropolis, possibly King Ahab’s “ivory palace” (1 Kings 22:39), which was destroyed by Assyria in 721 BC. The city walls were about five feet thick and built with the finest craftsmanship of the time. King Ahab further strengthened the city’s defenses by adding double walls over thirty feet thick.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Above: The ruins of the Roman-era colonnaded street in Samaria, with 600 such columns still standing, connecting the west and east gates of Samaria.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Above: Samaria city, photographed in 1890. Now housed in the U.S. Library of Congress.
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When the northern kingdom of Israel first began, Jeroboam established Shechem as his capital, later moving it to Tirzah. King Omri of Israel reigned in Tirzah for six years before moving the capital to Samaria. 1 Kings 16:24 states, “He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devotional-notes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6786"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11407,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions\/11407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}