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according to 1 Kings xvi. 24, means the hill of Shemer, Omri “bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of [his] city … after the name of Shemer … Samaria.” (B.C. 925.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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