<p class="poetry">Is not Calneh like Carchemish?p> <p class="poetry">Hamath like Arpad?p> <p class="poetry">Samaria like Damascus?<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">As I have done to Samaria and its idols,p> <p class="poetry">so I will do to Jerusalem and its idols.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim?<n id="1" /> Indeed, did any gods rescue Samaria<n id="2" /> from my power?<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> says,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I saw the prophets of Samaria<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">doing something that was disgusting.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They prophesied in the name of the god Baalp> <p class="poetry">and led my people Israel astray.<n id="4" />p>

You will be overcome by<n id="1" /> drunkenness and sorrow. The cup of your sister Samaria is a cup of horror and desolation.

<p class="poetry">O Samaria, he has rejected your calf idol!p> <p class="poetry">My anger burns against them!p> <p class="poetry">They will not survive much longer without being punished,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">even though they are Israelites!p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I will turn Samaria<n id="1" /> into a heap of ruins in an open field &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">vineyards will be planted there!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will tumble<n id="3" /> the rubble of her stone walls<n id="4" /> down into the valley,p> <p class="poetry">and tear down her fortifications to their foundations.<n id="5" />p>

He purchased the hill of Samaria<n id="1" /> from Shemer for two talents<n id="2" /> of silver. He launched a construction project there<n id="3" /> and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.

<p class="bodytext">When they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, &#8220;O <sc>Lordsc>, open their eyes, so they can see.&#8221; The <sc>Lordsc> opened their eyes and they saw that they were in the middle of Samaria.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The king of Assyria brought foreigners<n id="1" /> from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria<n id="2" /> in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.

The servants of the district governors led the march. When Ben Hadad sent messengers, they reported back to him, &#8220;Men are marching out of Samaria.&#8221;<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">After this the following episode took place.<n id="1" /> Naboth the Jezreelite owned a vineyard in Jezreel adjacent to the palace of King Ahab of Samaria.<n id="2" />

&#8220;Get up, go down and meet King Ahab of Israel who lives in Samaria. He is at the vineyard of Naboth; he has gone down there to take possession of it.

They washed off the chariot at the pool of Samaria (this was where the prostitutes bathed);<n id="1" /> dogs licked his blood, just as the <sc>Lordsc> had said would happen.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the seventeenth year of King Jehoshaphat&#8217;s reign over Judah, Ahab&#8217;s son Ahaziah became king over Israel in Samaria.<n id="1" /> He ruled for two years over Israel.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the eighteenth year of King Jehoshaphat&#8217;s reign over Judah, Ahab&#8217;s son Jehoram became king over Israel in Samaria;<n id="1" /> he ruled for twelve years.

She told her mistress, &#8220;If only my master were in the presence of the prophet who is in Samaria!<n id="1" /> Then he would cure him of his skin disease.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Later King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled his entire army and attacked<n id="1" /> and besieged Samaria.<n id="2" />

Samaria&#8217;s food supply ran out.<n id="1" /> They laid siege to it so long that<n id="2" /> a donkey&#8217;s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver<n id="3" /> and a quarter of a kab<n id="4" /> of dove&#8217;s droppings<n id="5" /> for five shekels of silver.<n id="6" />p>

Elisha replied, &#8220;Hear the word of the <sc>Lordsc>! This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says, &#8216;About this time tomorrow a seah<n id="1" /> of finely milled flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.&#8217;&#8221;