1 Kings 16:24
He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city there, calling it Samaria after the name of Shemer, who had owned the hill.
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- 1 Kings 13:32 for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”
- 1 Kings 16:28–29 And Omri rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and his son Ahab reigned in his place. In the thirty-eighth year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twenty-two years.
- 1 Kings 16:32 First, Ahab set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria.