1 Kings 13:32

13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ¹  against the altar in Bethel ²  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ³  will certainly be fulfilled.”

1 Kings 18:2

18:2 So Elijah went to make an appearance before Ahab.

Now the famine was severe in Samaria. ⁴ 

1 Kings 20:1

Ben Hadad Invades Israel

20:1 Now King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled all his army, along with thirty-two other kings with their horses and chariots. He marched against Samaria ⁵  and besieged and attacked it. ⁶ 

1 Kings 22:37

22:37 So the king died and was taken to Samaria, where they buried him. ⁷ 

1 Kings 22:2

22:2 In the third year King Jehoshaphat of Judah came down to visit ⁸  the king of Israel.

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah Visits a Widow in Sidonian Territory

17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), ⁹  there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.” ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 17:6

17:6 The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream.

1 Kings 17:24

17:24 The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a prophet and that the Lord really does speak through you.” ¹¹ 

John 4:4-5

Conversation With a Samaritan Woman

4:4 But he had ¹²  to pass through Samaria. ¹³  4:5 Now he came to a Samaritan town ¹⁴  called Sychar, ¹⁵  near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ¹⁶ 

Acts 8:5-8

8:5 Philip went down to the main city of Samaria ¹⁷  and began proclaiming ¹⁸  the Christ ¹⁹  to them. 8:6 The crowds were paying attention with one mind to what Philip said, ²⁰  as they heard and saw the miraculous signs ²¹  he was performing. 8:7 For unclean spirits, ²²  crying with loud shrieks, were coming out of many who were possessed, ²³  and many paralyzed and lame people were healed. 8:8 So there was ²⁴  great joy ²⁵  in that city.

[13:32]  ¹ tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

[13:32]  ² map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:32]  ³ tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.

[18:2]  ⁴ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[20:1]  ⁵ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[20:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.”

[22:37]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the king died and he came to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria.”

[22:2]  ⁸ tn The word “visit” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[17:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

[17:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “except at the command of my word.”

[17:24]  ¹¹ tn Heb “you are a man of God and the word of the Lord is truly in your mouth.”

[4:4]  ¹² sn Travel through Samaria was not geographically necessary; the normal route for Jews ran up the east side of the Jordan River (Transjordan). Although some take the impersonal verb had to (δεῖ, dei) here to indicate logical necessity only, normally in John’s Gospel its use involves God’s will or plan (3:7, 3:14, 3:30, 4:4, 4:20, 4:24, 9:4, 10:16, 12:34, 20:9).

[4:4]  ¹³ sn Samaria. The Samaritans were descendants of 2 groups: (1) The remnant of native Israelites who were not deported after the fall of the Northern Kingdom in 722 b.c.; (2) Foreign colonists brought in from Babylonia and Media by the Assyrian conquerors to settle the land with inhabitants who would be loyal to Assyria. There was theological opposition between the Samaritans and the Jews because the former refused to worship in Jerusalem. After the exile the Samaritans put obstacles in the way of the Jewish restoration of Jerusalem, and in the 2nd century b.c. the Samaritans helped the Syrians in their wars against the Jews. In 128 b.c. the Jewish high priest retaliated and burned the Samaritan temple on Mount Gerizim.

[4:5]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “town of Samaria.” The noun Σαμαρείας (Samareias) has been translated as an attributive genitive.

[4:5]  ¹⁵ sn Sychar was somewhere in the vicinity of Shechem, possibly the village of Askar, 1.5 km northeast of Jacob’s well.

[4:5]  ¹⁶ sn Perhaps referred to in Gen 48:22.

[8:5]  ¹⁷ tn The word “main” is supplied in the translation to clarify that “Samaria” is not the name of the city (at least in NT times). See both BDAG 912 s.v. Σαμάρεια, and L&N 93.568.

[8:5]  ¹⁸ tn The imperfect ἐκήρυσσεν (ekhrussen) has been translated as an ingressive, since this is probably the first time such preaching took place.

[8:5]  ¹⁹ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[8:6]  ²⁰ tn Grk “to what was being said by Philip,” a passive construction that has been changed to active voice in the translation.

[8:6]  ²¹ tn Here the following context indicates the miraculous nature of the signs mentioned. This term appears 13 times in Acts, but only twice more after Acts 8:13 (i.e., 14:3; 15:12).

[8:7]  ²² sn The expression unclean spirits refers to evil supernatural spirits which were ceremonially unclean, and which caused the persons possessed by them to be ceremonially unclean.

[8:7]  ²³ tn Grk “For [in the case of] many who had unclean spirits, they were coming out, crying in a loud voice.”

[8:8]  ²⁴ tn Grk “and there came about,” but this is somewhat awkward in English.

[8:8]  ²⁵ sn Great joy. The reason for eschatological joy was that such events pointed to God’s decisive deliverance (Luke 7:22-23). Note how the acts of healing extend beyond the Twelve here.