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Title: A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893 Barnum, Samuel W. (Samuel Weed), 1820-1891, ed
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Publisher: New York, London, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e cities of Samaria were not merelypartially but wholly evacuated of their inhabitantsin b. c. 721 (see below), and that they remained inthis desolated state until, in the words of 2 K. xvii.24, the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon(Babel), and from Cuthah, and from Ava (Ivah, xviii. 34), and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim,and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead ofthe children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria,and dwelt in the cities thereof. Thus the new SAM Samaritans were Assyrians by birth or subjugation,were utterly strangers in the cities of Samaria, andwere exclusively the inhabitants of those cities.—An incidental question, however, arises, Who wasthe king of Assyria that effected this colonization ? SAM 959 Josephus apparently attributes it to Shalraaneser;but the Samaritans themselves, in Ezr. iv. 2, 10, at-tributed their colonization to Esar-haddon, kingof Assur, or to the great and noble Asnapper,either the king himself or one of his generals (about
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b. c. 67*7). The fact, too, that some of these for-eigners came from Babylon would seem to direct usto Esar-haddon, rather than to his grandfather, Shal-maneser. And this date coincides with the termi-nation of the sixty-five years of Isaiahs prophecy,delivered b. c. 742, within which Ephraim shouldbe broken that it should not be a people (Is. vii.8).—These strangers, placed in the cities of Sama-ria by Esar-haddon, were of course idolaters, andworshipped a strange medley of divinities. Godsdispleasure was kindled, and they were infested bybeasts of prey, which had probably increased to agreat extent before their entrance upon it. Ontheir explaining their miserable condition to theking of Assyria, he dispatched one of the captivepriests to teach them how they should fear theLord. The priest came accordingly, and hence-forth, in the language of the sacred historian, they feared the Lord, and served their graven images,both their children and their childrens children : asdid their fat

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