SAMARIA (City)

(Later called Sebaste)

archaeological finds: it-1 153; it-2 846-847; si 156

Ahab’s palace: it-1 59, 153, 948; w90 11/1 16-17

ivories: it-1 59, 100-101, 180, 948; it-2 845; w90 11/1 17; si 149; w87 5/15 25

pool: it-1 60; it-2 845

potsherds (ostraca): mrt article 13; it-1 153, 1069; it-2 657; w07 11/15 12-13; w90 11/1 16-17

Roman ruins: it-2 535, 745, 846

walls: it-1 59, 153

Assyria conquers: it-1 204, 1149, 1233; it-2 846, 908; si 156; gm 47-48; w88 2/15 26-27

conspiracy triggers: it-1 1149

fall foretold: it-1 1148; it-2 846; w05 11/15 29-30; w93 5/15 4-5

whether Shalmaneser V or Sargon II: it-2 865; si 156

Ben-hadad II besieges: it-1 59-60, 286-287, 716-717; it-2 845

famine conditions: it-1 648

lepers’ reaction: w09 8/15 28

buildings by Herod the Great: g 9/09 27

capital of northern kingdom of Israel: it-2 554, 845; nwt 1710; w90 11/1 16

discussion: it-2 845-847; w90 11/1 16-17

“head of the fertile valley” (Isa 28:1): w91 6/1 11

Hyrcanus (John I) destroys: si 156

location: it-2 845

Omri founds: it-2 554

prophet Oded: it-2 525

renamed Sebaste: it-2 847

rival of Jerusalem: it-2 846

spiritual prostitution: it-1 1037

symbolized by Oholah (Eze 23): it-2 545; rr 166