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Title: A dictionary of the Bible..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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theking of Assyria, after a siege of nearlythree years: the northern kingdom wasdestroyed, and the ten tribes carried intocaptivity. 2 Kgs. 18 : 9-12. Colonistsfrom Assyria were sent to repeople thecountry, 2 Kgs. 17 : 24 ; Ezr. 4 : 9, 10.The city of Samaria continued to be aplace of some importance. It was cap-tured by Alexander the Great, who peo-i pled it with Syro-Macedonians; it was; again taken by John Hyrcanus, after a! years siege, and razed to the ground,! B. c. 109. It was rebuilt and adorned byHerod the Great, who named it Sebastein honor of Augustus, who gave it tohim, and settled a colony of six thou-sand persons there, composed of veteransoldiers and peasants. He enlarged thecity, and surrounded it with a wall andcolonnade. In N. T. times, Philip preached thegospel in Samaria, Acts 8:5, 9, andthe place became an episcopal see.Septimius Severus planted a Romancolony there in the third century ofthe Christian era, but politically it wassecondary to Caesarea. The city was -
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Euins of the Colonnade of Samaria. also surpassed in prosperity by Ne-apolis (Sichem). During the siege ofJerusalem. Samaria fell into the hands of the Muslims, but the Crusaders estab-lished a Latin bishop there, thus reviv-ing the old episcopal see. In a. d. 1184,759 SAM SAM Saladin marched through the city : andnotices of the place occur in the accountsof travellers from the fourteenth to theseventeenth centuries. Present Condition.—The ancient cityof Samaria is now represented bythe modern village Sebustieh (fromSebaste), situated upon the slope ofthe hill, having houses built of stonestaken from the ancient remains. In andamong the houses are scattered manyfragments of ancient buildings, such ashewn blocks, shafts of columns, capitals,and portions of entablatures. Vines growluxuriantly around the bases of brokenshafts, grain is planted amid shatteredcolumns, sculptured blocks of limestoneare embedded in the rude terraces of thevineyards. The most imposing ancientbuilding is the

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